Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a14ed7652ef0209…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-18 11:38:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 5ab5a9fd43122f38fe1854e241a77e9c SHA-1: 93e14250e559b29d463ff93e89c1a3428b7b7750 SHA-256: 8a14ed7652ef02097b8ccfda1d89ce3a64bf57a2c432adf394bd340527ff39ab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to various websites, including those hosted on compromised WordPress installations. This suggests the PDF is used to redirect users to potentially malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+delete+android+file+transfer+from+mac PDF link annotation
    • https://stephankeppel.com/userfiles/file/59292647350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613543d30ab04---67248830262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolitplus.ru/files/file/nigisupekud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/32364635397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://printific.com/images/contentimages/files/109838960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12tiga.com/contents/files/51923147660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613abf62c2a78---lenotanamesinijot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stitesattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/muwolamiguzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lt101shop.com/userfiles/files/5408271267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isdoor.ru/uploads/files/87877443378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topbuild.net/content/xuploadimages/file/6054533167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134f0c253cf3---97501921143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamorenj.com/userfiles/files/64724150939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baatco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46849598790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctners.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zudovuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safarekhoob.ir/basefile/safarekhoobir/files/12303685178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candybeauty.vn/upload/files/65168292794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogomanhnghia.com/uploads/files/35567902862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupoaccs.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tofovuwijafemefuwanuvada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songhakbbq.com/uploads/files/nabixupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citronel.com/userfiles/files/95876966509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magyar-logyogyasz.hu/fileok/file/88558481577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b7b.reviewz.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/xewesoxozix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmfegypt.com/userfiles/files/64162105600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d216.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD216 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA28 17708 bytes
SHA-256: 7b911b7d5fa5536f956df579d0ba2a6d2328908ab6c8a3b6650e065ba70510b4
font_02_sfnt_off000117fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117FE 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 691ba763a6f81f7c333dd60b5f9966d70213ed7da2678fd295cfdbc2ee75bdff