Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a544a4cb8956bd2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 01:11:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c720b0f67761fc3f0844a7f7139c00dd SHA-1: ce7eca4b69e6aacdc1ed85af5a244c2242b2bbc8 SHA-256: 8a544a4cb8956bd24e0e348b2abe7ee2a8037835bc923e249df41c1f8c137e00
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/lelutijexesoberuxu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72f56e35608a99883a0de0921af1fcc5/nawodabonexaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vannordenvastgoed.nl/userfiles/file/4433745523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-leather.com/radsportfiles/file/jukuwug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crownprolaw.com/userfiles/Proj_Name/files/84676262480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neilreardon.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/83740366635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kopdesign.nl/userfiles/file/setugib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detector-billetes.com/Imagenes/file/88996393634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroisvias.ru/userfiles/file/91947989009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eternalcycle.com/FCKFiles/file/gelofewex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongphuctqueen.com/upload/files/17982866927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/noneje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apollopowersystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/272f09dbd49e8278ebecd36e75e9cc13/tedaxobozeripimof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parklanehotel.asia/userfiles/file/17893593320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe37k1ec3ba1lttbn4hctuj2cd/30805033304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speckletrack.com/update/editor/file/wuzuvewenomukerijuputor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intranet.uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44278893100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deltastal.ru/userfiles/file/10699947315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f63e858f08---78776908982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evergreencans.com/userfiles/file/53196176323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udokutscher.de/gfx/userfiles/files/vazan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=op%C3%A7%C3%B5es+bin%C3%A1rias+pdf+download+gratisPDF 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_off0000d2a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2A0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eab2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAB2 19568 bytes
SHA-256: 6e9f30b3ccc69c057fdde752ad5c96c7a37a0c95b4555753ab0d25f5972b4443
font_02_sfnt_off00011ba7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BA7 11524 bytes
SHA-256: 9f5ce0e33d593e9f98e2ece65e0c5fac8dcdb84815cf505155052d655e7515ca