Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a137014c68ec92e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 07:58:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: d83c8776364475baadc35a10c2e36b8c SHA-1: d4c49f987a9ffeeec9a4c6d54aa49ba9812a32ac SHA-256: 8a137014c68ec92e335dc0b4fc7ade1d7c47640fed2c1767264b2d7cfa042b91
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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 https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096cc901296a---59280879470.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://partnercable.hu/files/50312452452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9o5so25u7k8npklk5gdjusdkr1/xuxuzematogegedesojov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1b7984ab05---94502453812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agriplan-rs.com/dados/ckfinder/files/54626216546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iece.in/userfiles/file/29972471713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozanatalan.com/iboard/includes/userfiles/files/tulibipoxuduwodojifeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heryeryesil.com/resimlerfiles/45326171225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pdww.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69045122673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf3a36ec2ee---62973913868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chickenwild.com/upload/contents/images/images/91337813217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i3ccsvgk7j27l68l7moqbds8nc/98387226319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c472396ab9d---55692623616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mv3lvd2djsfnfjort32g2jils3/nelunifuvoxazefadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdf4e264f66---fezijepipixida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aardbeienfeesten.nl/uploadimages/files/47823368150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoongnau.com/upload/files/basafesolile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/57810468869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c637c88bd---tixopuwux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/13292306687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d40ad1a1102---xivegofirorijotofez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mxm-hosting.nl/img/editor/file/risiserababakidegegijotor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caissedesecolesdu5eme.fr/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buladesokazulepimojakut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfwarbitrator.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/worojif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099dc4fbc2fd---3180604049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=tuck+frump+meaningPDF 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_off0000e850.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE850 18020 bytes
SHA-256: d9d9354d02c3b647c5a6f06053c1cb2e61c98b85976c13c5ceb743f58e2bc675
font_01_sfnt_off00011740.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11740 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012f57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F57 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 82d9f1ae9db88a423a3946a0e3eff9cfb6376e3b6e6fc05d5cfa5ca22ec8ea91