Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a393ddc05b7dab0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-08 20:59:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 3eab8ac0f6677b83829041b17dc1d8f3 SHA-1: a45d78562fdc75cf27fe6a8cf3e3bb41390966e4 SHA-256: 8a393ddc05b7dab0ff0aea7d7dec6b9a466de603836676c1512ac762cfce9ec7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs clearly point to a malicious link distribution pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://poldercuptrofee.nl/site/admin/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/90645949862.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nsmpublicschool.org/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/44592555544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambcavallon.eu/userfiles/files/pojarebisuduvozixonodigev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eirai.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46836472852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toolsatool.com/userfiles/files/lobukatutojakibuzopubalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d106f06473b2bc344036b724acc6ac88/27619943420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131ae1a57214---38624523371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvconstructionsgoa.com/pharma/admin/userfiles/file/66278105327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plafondchauffant.fr/img/user/file/galuzilanuvizojaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitcolombia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41091098300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camel-republic.com/media/userfiles/files/69945535773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shjkyq.com/up_files/FCK/file/51529791834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strahyi.ru/images/file/wudumulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mskgroup-spb.ru/upload/file/kakijusogevilovumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizugy.hu/uploads/files/16005825215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nontaromclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fegejasisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/78851952297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haithuanphat.com/uploads/files/mixexovatipixujiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://texigo.tw/upfile/files/2021/09/02/lobarinowubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://american-security-inc.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nosedufodipuzikajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161318cdca0002---bitubovuxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=ableton+live+9+tutorial+deutsch+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_off0000db81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB81 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f393.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF393 18396 bytes
SHA-256: 9c89ae039c5c1a0b287c118d027512291f9d2e6accff31f582fdc832210bd257
font_02_sfnt_off000122cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122CF 11172 bytes
SHA-256: df2d525e4608bee9ded86b4dfbd3d6a68660628a1c8abf3bdff3382b6c2adc91