Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a7828d1d9efb109…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-08-01 13:52:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 240252083bba3ce404097521f70e4eb4 SHA-1: c4dc8450369cb8684684e02f5d7227955d36d247 SHA-256: 8a7828d1d9efb109a3ef920c7402830038ac12ec485ffbea037802bc12c1dddd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm directing users to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The presence of numerous external URIs and compromised CMS upload links suggests an effort to lure users to malicious destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9932

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://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/65735263880.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/606d8338f618793273f76eb71cf5ca51/28367237216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zussobrance.sk/grafika/dokumenty/2001659058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0602715f4---58976491095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rotudavid.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32718619134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/1498315870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dd4aff32987e0330564843306c87c47/wilawugikimapovenunomizan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imcborivali.org/userfiles/file/14692525955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dmdjj7s01eir7c53c30g2m6qi4/52895842122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/xarekawef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092df3bc619a---41286099171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epiphanych.com/images/file/tilozulukepavamorekowof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8b10c29eabd89f5c0390243922bc8f9/figifudefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bca7e96ced2f9249f6f3b4f7fdfaccdc/27451440019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/demajuxakepadiraji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/75689652703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a9ba9a662---pamuvakumavebobepow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dwhs79.com/clients/15834/File/wesarexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.haztartasigepszakuzlet.hu/pics/file/sivagedefukeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ottt5tibht54gnoel83pr6nmj2/96085259283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c91cd07dbeb---telibabifimewejumobuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fruhmann-elektrotechnik.at/35497154711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heyumpnd.com/userfiles/file///14367424678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q0bvbmesd7d5kv2unfgvbmsbaf/fakifolorosunit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savoie-outils-coupants.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fimemojekixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb73ce60bb---mobimepuxiwemoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+increase+arm+girthPDF 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_off0000fe23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE23 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001163a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1163A 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 5b3e57f431d734440979d2f257caf9640624b496a38f828e80b7dfd11f62f76c
font_02_sfnt_off00012eac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EAC 16804 bytes
SHA-256: f4801868de3fedb748e500bbdb684bc59f876168bb152b5440bb62b44074cb9c