Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a24d81852f342df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 14:16:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: b2ca8375e32a6e63dfce0d8ae41aa898 SHA-1: cacdff830b012e7dfe1f7ff4263927017ebc33c6 SHA-256: 8a24d81852f342dfb3828f84116a72db3bb2b77c2a8aeb6b2b8c807b7e60d591
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to redirect users, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The ML classifier also strongly flagged the PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://gymlesgeants.com/upload/editor/file/1689902821.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610f72ffdae65---dugereroxesidesejakeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulaikhatextile.com/userfiles/files/87775547467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bbb9f04b13---zekazinomufewutefikikagan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8268a0be0a85e95bdd5f71252c7332f3/zelepupapufabavoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac9db56e5bf---85775234105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xanbiente.de/userfiles/file/8263649824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b4e76426c0---ramexaganekegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec9ae82205c---7933018407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saothienemb.com/uploads/images/files/karepikajuvakoxisin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a14bfb9461c2c3cf1ad1869a52fd190e/rijelesowomanuremejerasek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferado.vn/userfiles/file/14017917851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newbiesites.com/userfiles/file/xifepexubiweso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bienenaktuell.com/sites/bienenaktuell.com/files/file/tegelanup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davidfauquemberg.com/home/fauquemb/david/bbdg_site/userfiles/file/koxoselibenapapefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pecsikult.hu/files/file/87873274925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fetogram.com/images/upload/files/42482220378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maviet.vn/upload/files/45957251249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetplus.com/userfiles/files/lafiroxedaganiwefome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vntdc.com/upload/fck/file/werupurexonajip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d83b21409---sogesalidejodapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patp1ryb.ru/media/file/jaxakuwosalaxusoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luberoff.com/userfiles/file/77176757726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/muwojivotifaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4k3tmpariq8igrqvdecsdqbj56/86769512941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=groningen+protocol+pdfPDF 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_off0000e64c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE64C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE63 10504 bytes
SHA-256: 4c65f9293db2780addcc462f041ac15fd0e9b91bbd5c0c76efd1630bd4b4f5df
font_02_sfnt_off00011621.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11621 18092 bytes
SHA-256: 3c9f1bed0e0766bf56743d3fb6f792376bbd8f998bd69bafbead834a4882d541