Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a4847316f6060ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-05-25 11:21:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b1c367070a3da5e4b29aad26d166f71b SHA-1: 2f9681bc0063a9f952beee0349ef72d315327922 SHA-256: 8a4847316f6060ab92d06ccad057d92b426fe2da6be31cc936b0a80294ad7767
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers confirm its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or malware distribution vector. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://traonguoc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o9n8atpkpng9u4en3khphe0adc/xajavunolupi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bhdvdjjnammv671d4m6g2vcb3l/pezisidazeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-cp.com/userfiles/file/somanibugekukudovus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.makattakasinti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160765e0875834---gizipelifipusimemimum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/808114838090d2b13a5f46eb3ec3b599/kijimafobagojifedev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160700dac10817---2800765748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d5d45d41db---livofalojisekenizepisifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/60896522992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082996e45d7e---bojosefilifaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impactcleaningserviceskc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/608d2c97412176e858c99d73ce434a1f/wowunetedod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a10535f262---84695252503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4d022cfcd---60370033111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb7c2e68c64d5183b459cc8f8aee712b/xesilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wooshin.kr/uploaded/file/126694565460a801d8bf898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607169d2ca08e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=dangal+movie+download+hdfridayPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e1b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1B6 5396 bytes
SHA-256: c30e2c85b4640b67896edbba5c1e98c13660998ea8131813d064d45145a41a49
font_01_sfnt_off0000f40b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF40B 10696 bytes
SHA-256: cd4288cf68d27480e8ee3ff9328ebc34786a808091785f5e6d27c78192facaf5