Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a6d8fc437c95c8a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 03:30:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 5fd2dc47672528865ab66d1485a92537 SHA-1: aa6f91c609cf088bf138b48ca6050c7996128c50 SHA-256: 8a6d8fc437c95c8aea3d297ad726db427c3ffff72e3f11aaf88c41b3538af48d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, including a WordPress upload storage location, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of UTM parameters indicate an attempt to obscure the final destination and potentially track user engagement with the lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 http://cyclad.org/UserFiles/file/46427492162.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bafc950af4234d2901257078c1377e1b/xavepodudunisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c52334c10602a058a222c39cd39e7175/74369476493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16113ac61b8694---84279096518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210811004316246828959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f46a35714---62296103784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feach.ie/images/uploads/file/mezesiranuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandweeramsterdamamstellanden.nl/userfiles/file/zagogosavupomopuxejami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomaszfilipczak.pl/userfiles/file/5329953440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dcc21c41e0---5146481902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sjalikave.hu/pictures/file/31194045866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a385863c287---1128911264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070ce46e487b---53026955406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/tawexuxabevotiwovisabenuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be63c7a728de27980196ef724e06ff9c/54858997796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b529555282ca02a6c75f37f9304a5fb7/safaligukejowut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfusion.us/admin/images/file/58682544942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serdceprirody.ru/userfiles/file/83582695920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yenidenyuzlendirme.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/joregiraxeluxubedonujojiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3b5e1b140e---17233932107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d9fc89a9e8---24996363678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sonntag-immobilien.lu/userfiles/files/pulurogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef55afea63df47ae699847b8b4b762f4/vufofunopafuxonodekiniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com//data/attachment/file/42701754219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=why+is+pdf+so+largePDF 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_off0000d964.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD964 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f17b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF17B 10684 bytes
SHA-256: d3b8501d6896e65977a40c4cebe07130f17b7c68ef435cf69de3f19801e2f856
font_02_sfnt_off000109d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109D8 18536 bytes
SHA-256: deccdbb6e605d283da20a98ccc81b0603af35b357f576d56b5369b0dc9f73f0a