Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a5fd8cb7dc51996…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 08:05:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 14046feaed84573ad6b1e440ada10d90 SHA-1: 37d36fe3034d1fa70cd93d16dda739b1dbcfa68b SHA-256: 8a5fd8cb7dc51996a76175805de4c15e3af39038888a6370678316273e3fe14a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a3qr903uhflu08ko9106enuvb/fopuwewimuxinukumexani.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://agroanaliz.by/upload/editor/files/17278045716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://murten-hotels.ch/userfiles/files/zobenilugigifebozap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iuoshili.com/upload/users/files/141893602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcockeysville.com/uploads/files/21860709081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massageindex.nl/images/uploads/24926513481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa5518305e3---94305365944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--939a66v0zjo3bcvdmrp.com/data/ckfinder/files/35762187129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taksis.lv/taksis/userfiles/file/vomeputofamukawogigaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d06c6777f4---defalugoxupigewirabig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkorphotographyguide.com/userfiles/file/gitunogufebotuwofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twr1115.net/files/fckeditor/file/59215781430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frutapac.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gejogeliderifudomefilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04a1ac65e9b68b06a39d9dc56163b8bc/99324552039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faresaldabbous.com/uploads/files/mofomup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/11967357950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malifer.hu/upload/file/gofuditobusajigoxobawevuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c9bffea273---xufexejenolesemorog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094dca09b949---67370546204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netshopnepal.com/userfiles/file/38158356628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkart.it/uploads/file/bopuwiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubletroubels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160773b3b6a642---43476085981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/nujibavinakujebunozawiriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=humanscale+keyboard+tray+manualPDF 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_off0000deef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEEF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f706.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF706 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 760d0972111d7d85183fc65eed8cfe84e0b4fd17f55facf2c269ea9cd1bd7510
font_02_sfnt_off0001102a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1102A 17256 bytes
SHA-256: 6b6b69c0dd7a65f5fe063c63d2f58bcb8cfe1137d5fd45675d662bbb994dcb27

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