Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a282e55e1da1872…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 07:49:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 658607e4aac9774865a6cca288896cf5 SHA-1: bb4b7f74f996cb51225eb84994208943a5e5211f SHA-256: 8a282e55e1da18723e0194a2323d5ddb53982d8cd734c96e198370c03e58bbf6
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 various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these link farms. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to lure users to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=male+to+female+voice+changer+app+during+call
    • http://nyett.hk/uploads/news/files/73162441197.pdf
    • http://nuitsdartistes.eu/images/file/13727563967.pdf
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832e13da82d---lovip.pdf
    • https://butterfly-propertymanagement.com/userfiles/file/fanorag.pdf
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160929018008fe---17226159555.pdf
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ba4724f97---60351508065.pdf
    • https://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/imsf0dh1e69fhu6u8l8o364ajs/99384198714.pdf
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de5baef512---vabipeboralasefulenapidux.pdf
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f43c3a03470c157abaa06c1e99951e47/watunuparezibivon.pdf
    • https://stradatextiles.com/upload/ckfinder/files/16588493631.pdf
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/sawaxeba.pdf
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88c0df2c8a5f9c94490c49b172f6a594/34560806386.pdf
    • https://ferado.vn/userfiles/file/92607909267.pdf
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089a13394fee---juvaposasowakazutonuv.pdf
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081893fbaef9---53215511469.pdf
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ae45b7bf3157ba51b92b44159ce86e5/ribodemevaluvonazubedura.pdf
    • https://istanbularicilikfestivali.com/upload/ckfinder/files/51704208600.pdf
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52d2a26c8455cdad0ae48c24927f7c67/8992184965.pdf
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ehbpvt0toq4h6a40aguu5c3mrs/72794397048.pdf
    • https://parklanehotel.asia/userfiles/file/dukuliv.pdf
    • http://samafb.org/uploadfilefiles/97586444977.pdf
    • https://bleikss.com/userfiles/file/lusuzisatawedinil.pdf
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5f7a48890c---topupebare.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_003_off000126e1.bin
be96b588d2e72828703de7f3bfb8edd1876ad96d0c5fd5a551bb72957c5d77f4
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x126E1 18960 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off0000f83a.bin
48e57d253743bf5a5f4b36dea6473adbcc06550712e4e3b86d1168c513ac7148
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF83A 17828 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000145b0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145B0 16792 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00015dc7.bin
d562b326ea0d033f9aaf493c6747ead06ed2dfc85e2e74503fd8b1d6b50cdc0a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15DC7 11060 bytes