Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a291a5cb7b8515d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-07-21 00:36:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 30e486a0ede94804ec97a7819e8a2ff4 SHA-1: 10b9c60fa293e7ec86d97d17e4b25f20e23d1a81 SHA-256: 8a291a5cb7b8515d915f809faa3fce8e8a7668b728c6691229e5e831310a0d08
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to trick users into visiting malicious domains, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b407a750299---40513967279.pdf
    • https://inifd.london/uploads/file/tisebimazolosisojepopewin.pdf
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/15031439795.pdf
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3edad6a9310dc649a7b36f86fb86841d/59197731591.pdf
    • https://bibonatura.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sepunotes.pdf
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9f231c3150---zuzopabuwada.pdf
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9023d00d588590a78d75318046846e4a/97939824509.pdf
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3mf66nm1rjm4rhupp4f9rr0u27/xapokixofotalilumerudut.pdf
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/14515457144.pdf
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a64b9e0182a---24394744137.pdf
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7a4578596---85185772233.pdf
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a4bde7e988f08b857591a12f9b59b9f/tixoso.pdf
    • http://ray-king67reunion.com/clients/41562/File/61555294509.pdf
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d60d1bb22027f40e31ade85acc89fac8/vekisezi.pdf
    • http://blevy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56826194564.pdf
    • https://xn--80aaa1arbfjoe3bzh.xn--p1ai/data/files/73840320676.pdf
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c172be7691d3dbec26e3ed73e217b0ca/febafubewipibuxosabemunid.pdf
    • https://www.nvsrolko.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53568573088.pdf
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075c618763a0---40029943982.pdf
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3deb0e6cfd90e76780a60aecc1fb7e2a/feluzolozu.pdf
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f85f3693fc---16901904562.pdf
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6928bbc5f83fab788e1444841c914354/96928040302.pdf
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/68117059850.pdf
    • https://reinigungsfee007.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hsd2t4bc82lcun6cs0sb30ivk3/76031855578.pdf
    • https://dogathermalhotel.com/resimler/files/65562385721.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=quotes+from+lord+of+the+flies+chapter+9
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f77e.bin
0c81d6212dd1fa60d296960237bc7770070cb7a8cdf0d3adbd8300f2ba54c762
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF77E 16996 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012380.bin
161f8fa5dcbcd49e0fdf197d335c1ce60b20e81ed09a5c938c6d7fb700cfb4b7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12380 11108 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013d86.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D86 16792 bytes