Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a0cde4d23788540…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-07-03 03:29:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: bda1516f4a094cb5d961224efaf6750b SHA-1: 67e5f36d67821f5ec5f0ed12dd5875b562d50522 SHA-256: 8a0cde4d23788540b7ab60fd4c7bd13b37cadb3b21a9042804e1302eddac05d5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://legalinet.eu/userfiles/files/5592545189.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cn-polylysine.com/d/files/48371073042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fa45100005---sosepugiverewavexaxad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shipnhanh247.vn/asset/files/fuwopuvezuxenobejef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessvaluationapp.com//fck_files/file/8781449976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160881ad8725ef---zuguroxutuxazadorimana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i4migf4hrqq6sjlkedn49l16v6/gojokujepetelizirad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfa161e4420---jopep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yilip.net/userData/board/file/dufugadupipunodefujudube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozkayalartrans.com/userfiles/file/48218757491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fidelishospice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dubenepakodan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c18a6c9fdfc---88554222533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratco-hardware.com/Ups/files/73422184825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/wegidut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c7a8ea4ea---pivinimot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/88872845687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://culturasiapamplona.com/guiarte_userfiles/files/zusuzaxisodawinelepowebew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c671b3ac9c9---39097953621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08b2de08eddd8510566a90dce3fde74f/zilidaxisijolinovolaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrobud.net/uploaded/file/47447632161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhahangbienhaitien.com/uploads/files/33027997310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dialogueinpraxis.net/files/docs/mabowodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=itchy+navel+piercingPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ecaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECAA 10496 bytes
SHA-256: a7dc08af10781d2482e2dcca0b00756c0aaf22f8f4733ee2b92e0ea755a9cb27
font_01_sfnt_off00010477.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10477 16516 bytes
SHA-256: 38a3a4ad2aa150b03f9c1f21c58461ae3ce235c0439510606a45fbd086ce37ff
font_02_sfnt_off00012f5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F5D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1