Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a3f9d5343271652…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 09:51:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 90e395e0b8bd1da9993c20f98dab3ca1 SHA-1: b69d41401ba79b639ee598471f9e5568bfe14da0 SHA-256: 8a3f9d5343271652bd2d86f861854f10f40d53078f34de708de35a1c578b2304
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the heuristic firings strongly suggest a malicious intent to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://rm-centr.ru/uploads/file/15772695863.pdf
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16104dc8563f2c---jaresesafin.pdf
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dda54bc5df6---bagelukobug.pdf
    • http://topstec.com/d/files/pukafok.pdf
    • https://abicecream.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zofakavibi.pdf
    • http://brainbond.ro/userfiles/file/44198284998.pdf
    • https://pypconsultores.mx/userfiles/file/26415689392.pdf
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8mpmg9oif65vtigasj535eght/14576896276.pdf
    • https://wumusk.com/asset/uploads/files/dalugemoro.pdf
    • https://olterus.org/contents//files/tumugaxabijawatex.pdf
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26b84104a1082ecefd80181d60eb5065/bubuximewowowunopopepar.pdf
    • http://zonweringbelgie.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80418450669.pdf
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021060612500065.pdf
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/somijasiravatofise.pdf
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6a7fa5cdf7---lawirixinuwizijepulut.pdf
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/43732168407.pdf
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132696a2838d---81039220236.pdf
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/jivafid.pdf
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f79m75l4e2i112046p6l2rknq2/86813529030.pdf
    • http://myshopgroup.com/userfiles/files/magodonisu.pdf
    • http://plafondchauffant.fr//img/user/file/jodadebagijifewi.pdf
    • http://wedooverseas.com/userfiles/file/40023305065.pdf
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161093c820bea4---vikowudevevur.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=understanding+depression+worksheet+pdf
    • 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_off0000ed86.bin
ce58fa44eafc1e9832daace14ae767d8a082f942a41c89420991916194ad387d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED86 17068 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000119a9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119A9 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000131c0.bin
2bd1e39ad323277548d27e00c4dd72386280cff85d071eca9a45c7becea6ee0b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131C0 10916 bytes