Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a442b5435b4d7ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-07-29 21:02:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 40de63905949fd4730b23d7ed9ee6103 SHA-1: 50a25aebc8c08d432acd7b8cf29b79cb54e76b01 SHA-256: 8a442b5435b4d7ee5fe7f20d37825fc0bd0c84453b41e4b52d11694c917befc0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious destinations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6dfe6e95023233b774363796b0c55a7/16241220657.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://effektfilm.de/files/file/33159638746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jkmdc.com/aversystem.com/userfiles/file/vilowarezukatutigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fef7532c943c3fc8d30a7b9ad7a1be34/27262146715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thingstodobahrain.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1762423131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160889cad9534e---98631919534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wuxihemei.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210605_101041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d45e023e1---pazolexamapajikidowufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f76fdb410c0750ffc3e96cb00c7e5900/28936218250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ub54psr8dfd2jhmv7tgb8m5i57/siropuwejusuwazed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hhd283qhn5hf152dje201ofrsr/jelido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnnycc.org/userfiles/file/8501713205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/96474325501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/72829232291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5b4a6527a---12442658624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jss-moms.si/upload/File/wadapemedoxagufuded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://curewelldiabetes.com/userfiles/file/sowasav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f344b62880f---31073916795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-preiss.at/upload_files/files/xefolidinudipojen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4420c7f658b65eacaa2c6664d7e5a501/mupedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edwardlankin.com/clients/86087/File/71410057214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pgnsualumni.com/clients/872691/File/vapekexalepavobubitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gw21.ch/uploads/userfiles/file/50418902975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a02e1b61221---kiretivegegubexamoworur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+thematic+apperception+test+used+to+measurePDF 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_off0000e2bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fad1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAD1 16352 bytes
SHA-256: f59a659325d912b9bf62aa286e0c7c40b5f936515caef63d184bdab411e0cef7
font_02_sfnt_off00012557.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12557 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 7c02afcf105710e92cdbf473135f754db8cee986a25fad01066311177daedabe