Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a56b5d396c9eafc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 14:14:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 34e0807eab85385d6c78b22e13eb348c SHA-1: c18dfb6371720012bb866e5bfda5b57cc91ce0fc SHA-256: 8a56b5d396c9eafc599cdee5cf5cba74a61592dec3e465a95896038efd5659af
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=action+and+linking+verbs PDF link annotation
    • http://wingmanplanningdemo.com/userfiles/files/nizasogonaludo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscowfashion.net/content/xuploadimages/file/63988626431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160979992e36ac---xugana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superfishinglewood.com/uploads/files/71352757312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulgankhangai.mn/userfiles/files/nanamuledobenasovomuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1abbcbfcbd---11500463662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69106ed96d24bf768b517f5667196d88/vuzagerosojafedon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotalongbien.org/data/dulieu/files/88079531215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7s9055ddpa10bj4ee7tprib474/fimuzovanijoxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikansambel.com/contents//files/50360710492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khonggiansangtao.com/platformecom/img/upload/file/52201986264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a6c126170---sonifosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umffz21.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mugoneda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021043001085170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mstreatmentadvances.com/userfiles/files/69043917126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patriarca-batiment.com/ressource/site-image/files/zasezenete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidequipment.com/public_html/userfiles/file/potefuxumodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olamare.com/img/uploaded/file/72099530835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-domodedovo.ru/upload_picture/file/77411868591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/481ccc028230c8d1588bb788b1c951dd/47121933080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcs4b0v0ubes894ml1vmuim0ip/34567471941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b2cd161dfe---nupigele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b2d52646ba6705385911506a6b58731/fomupatavuretadukosozow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geo-equipe.it/userfiles/files/66197432954.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_off0000e263.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE263 16816 bytes
SHA-256: a17de644c52ad0bc18f2b29cd26c4cd469323def785662ea8a33bb06b1a26b30
font_01_sfnt_off00010e26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E26 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001263d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1263D 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 8c081cd2596b8573b95e61e75f4bca7dc7275d7a4daca2d11e2c52262f8ec4b2