Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a3f5dd572fe2419…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-10-08 13:00:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: e0b6dafb287f8491163ea78fd219374b SHA-1: e2cc2b5bca6077c9f5c25b2940d95fdbb9a143e4 SHA-256: 8a3f5dd572fe2419d7671fe29fdf48c79595b13d1d6d8687fffe2bcd862137ac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards an attack pattern involving directing users to malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=play+free+games+online+without+downloading PDF link annotation
    • https://unitedpetexpress.unitedreloth.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nisisekijafaxogaloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricarda-allegra.de/userfiles/file/rimupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtowniagrafit.pl/userfiles/file/zivutotolave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skinct.com/upload_file/file/Fl202109021645147951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134d931a588d---pimudopobewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cribpointonline.org/cribpointonline/userimages/file/bedesilenalorixetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeuu.biz/upload/ckeditor/pages/files/tiwebereredugoludevixoxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16150b671e1c2f---pimerupipuragevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148129cbab13---xuxusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nandishoverseas.com/UserFiles/File/gewolajomokivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0311.com/userfiles/file/20210924132022_ui31bu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/803469f53679808ef2e9869149462156/41821768506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sensiblemachines.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/2695667568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygoaltv.org/ipp/images/uploads/files/49843186400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lishasurgical.in/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45182017237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morebricks.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bupesidelut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westhygiene.hu/editor_up/47742565239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mestav.sk/uploaded_images/file/68109009892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationalcoopadvisors.com/userfiles/files/ruritasatomitavujoxufami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rileyillustration.com/images/agency/files/93501995824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kahasat.cz/data/file/joniwumipenijuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honeystraw.com/uploadfiles/file/17094354241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agregadoschucuri.sinecsas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61016049609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlh.vn/storage/ckfinder/files/46990872519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161470e906bca5---97379559155.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_off0000d931.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD931 18352 bytes
SHA-256: 91c12606f6b34dbb18b5974dc82e39278db5d6069396f02b2228db5168d18906
font_01_sfnt_off00010899.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10899 11104 bytes
SHA-256: dc88299048afb3614de2efadf485b10d4e7045739fe76f1f3927027a8f628a68
font_02_sfnt_off00012235.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12235 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1