Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a2f073529599cc5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 21:27:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 130ed517e02b1b1b42ca081082ca0d29 SHA-1: d890c624b859b04fb16dbe8c85b7e578c53ae7ac SHA-256: 8a2f073529599cc559bca174a943c61aa01e30018d07b5de8d45b062b002bae3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to exploit users through social engineering or to deliver further malicious payloads.

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 http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/457eb94b9e91f2aeeac0702646222dfe/7071593548.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mtcongnghiepxanh.com/upload/fckimagesfile/3072563469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0f9352d1881de07c6d0f6a6330c5f07/29443309523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609db88d9f706---14434196059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://offerseir.com/basefile/offerseircom/files/70619865466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093ce9d25566---ziluvolaxoguwajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/8419546988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amoslodge10-org.alljobsinliberia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29697876046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3c93f390ca---96674311971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jbdclothiers.net/emailer/userfiles/file/48331326125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070d03f57971---jemovosopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/rudikibonofol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3rjqgjmdta7g8npjqfbsnp8o7j/zajelijekoxiwate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://migger.dk/userimages/file/subikerotezizogedanizajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/679nrhu9l8jm7cmjt5jnlgqfs2/zujonunemewuvipulogob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd5c149d6f7---pawezojub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solo-enoant.com/content/files/files/96287661021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajskiewakacje.pl/userfiles/file/wiwaxuwilelakin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanoscopy.ru/uploads/files/narez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfacde456e6d5faea723cd331965f68f/45751574104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krakow4you.pl/krakow/files/satenabelelekakadel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/87150036728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duancanhotot.com/upload/files/64465209068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teaneckhs1977.com/clients/67867/File/luneregela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=sweetbitter+stephanie+danler+pdf+espa%C3%B1olPDF 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_off0000ddfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDFB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f612.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF612 11100 bytes
SHA-256: ed282742891420c15d9a99dc6bb93f63e0d44e8d229ae7fffe08ce477d8cc96f
font_02_sfnt_off00010f6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F6C 17584 bytes
SHA-256: 4a2f0cdd40bd3f696381a03cf5f4695f2808c001ed786e9e720ce7d51e373c48