Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a6cc90c81a3cb25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 18:14:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1071dd03556580690109095a498cfc78 SHA-1: a4ea227a9c1d879cd3e06ea9471c5dfa7df6e483 SHA-256: 8a6cc90c81a3cb25983cb423a94ad5853143bbb7beefb7d1c7a2cc29d763d9c4
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It employs a link farm strategy, distributing links across numerous compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains, likely to obscure the ultimate payload. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' suggests the document instructs users to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway security scanning.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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=lock+screen+android+10 PDF link annotation
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mgfc4n194k8tdme0cgnobeue58/7719221156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funbugs.ie/files/file/kumowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plasy.com/uploads/file/losolofasuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kieryk.pl/img/userfiles/file/25637101923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylphs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11359204064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20f12586529c4333249cba9c9bf8e6e7/35757083113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laatjehuisweerstralen.nl/upload/file/20750215219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gvs-russia.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fiwadavodovitajezuvalov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45a738a2f3a45019ea5e311e0627cee3/87791548377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnkcreations.com/userfiles/file/fisememifojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097492e63f57---10425702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1917e4de17---lawiwubes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://211.129.1.225/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60424144551.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://rhoptik.cz/klienti/devel/sneznerolby.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juzaxobukafosekigoxefupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apluskleaning.com/admin/images/file/67111702462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o79av69abka850ab6c.com/upload/file/202105261602263004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gc-antey.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89822558561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtsport.com/pliki/fajepupusikapebudujurori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnex.cc/images/blog//file/28302627434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e61fc499164---tixafuduwebowabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jd6618.com/jd6618/file/2021-8/file/LwpCms2021_08_26_18_13_20_5374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/538a39bad165a93588bf0c3c7a1425a1/53678161848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inunekocp.jp/mailmagazine/upload/files/7334748434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47s0qf5244ruv26vt8c94q31r6/lutupejiwezimonibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3c774a27d0---togixetupotodolofufoj.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_off0000e959.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE959 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001016b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1016B 17572 bytes
SHA-256: f0af65fb9196d299632e09f0e92aafb5a42696b038e7fe222c8ed749d6307cd3
font_02_sfnt_off00012eb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EB7 10440 bytes
SHA-256: 9243b12a38afb54ae197fada3a842b4fbc2a325824b285797b0324ae0cb398b2