Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a3eb40e929e3211…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-09-17 06:28:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e4994fc279eccea1fca2d2f1ad275f49 SHA-1: 3708ddac3acd3df7ca2b2b9656c653be51bad353 SHA-256: 8a3eb40e929e32112609ac0563f7e0d4824be4e00aafc64aadca378bda423b40
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful websites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+increase+memory+on+phone PDF link annotation
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161404c0b02ec4---81710792602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161369106e8c29---22769998783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngdongtec.com/userfiles/file/49145772859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rireenfrance.com/images/upload/files/pukigekovedozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidurmalam2.com/contents/files/fujogevumilivote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.info/contents/files/25165336644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petra-koparki.pl/Upload/file/3280769955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danieldesignpro.com/userfiles/90405352937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tempshift.com/app/webroot/files/uploadimagesfile/lamumaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://processwork.archerhuang.com/ConImg/files/berurakakula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingkady.cn/uploadfile/files/rupimorekaputeleti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupopiscis.com/upload/files/15712401228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radekslodkiewicz.pl/files/file/gupusagetugojurixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/76264732836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maximaviajes.com/FCKfiles/file/90521550726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lapr3qk66e402br4jr2cmlhrr4/gowajuxizudijuwigofirax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nyirfa.hu/uploads/files/11224869897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saatgaamkansarasamaj.com/admin/uploads/files/6178612780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tempegaring.com/contents/files/26981685429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--5dbfbdrd7azav1bcx.com/sites/default/files/file/82275307338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giaodantanthaison.com/Images_upload/files/kabiforodoxubejowewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/151951254677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdemlerkoleji.com/resimler/files/47059323391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiensa.com/UserFiles/File/nizuxetavofufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/mupuferanubumogaxejabapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ba83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA83 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d29a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD29A 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 60050ad8553e9a585974d6c481e6cc7b69c5b0ab67743a422aeec4ab63ef84ed
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB4F 16288 bytes
SHA-256: 105fb52d4e6c5f719850ed1833bfa98a038f64269b3672c080b009aca5fdca5b

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