Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a7ca3b54bb5cf91…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-06-18 23:13:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f46961c0ea16ca4ba0c599b53a170eca SHA-1: bcebda4a18079f314cc5eb928efa7cb4851c04e5 SHA-256: 8a7ca3b54bb5cf91bb557e32405641c6a21c65b66ca5d7c203315c686d2ee43b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, many of which host other PDF files, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution, as suggested by the 'gta v free download' lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0449aadcb4---75886544231.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608590b7ca009---64541990442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vishalahospitality.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37837382770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/bigafuvivusuvadozezarag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dnmpaint.com/sdcc/images/file/kumepakorujela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oj9524b5r4o7lh3vn5v6dch2vp/wimogimeneba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60a6b65847ef0e0916c8f0e447d89928/6924615593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bed016513df---jaramomanoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb5df94795f---sodidojupipugodajoberug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talleresjpg.es/img/file/mezimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j-club.eu/userfiles/file/zerapuluguxixix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e11f780d673f90574a85a2d7a4c675a3/47215329491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8bd1227db7---jusidasuvanovilexepar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htlexpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tamoxikejin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebb831cd4cd9a714ec8c3722b5085bc9/70642247800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/710b9596ea8cd7a0ba0eacc44b660d8a/74758445776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raisemoneyonline.org/clients/6/69/691275cf9a36cab982b2498ebdc715be/File/wuvudigewazewupale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c041114a006e4a8c0f422920974c1d0/rizuregexuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=gta+v+free+download+for+android+mobilePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cf14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF14 5196 bytes
SHA-256: f4e7327bf5677fc5e5d8097caf8350f180d546bc6ecb2955f99a69496c78704f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0CA 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 9114901402129dbb9201dee4f158c90c89d890a999757e701ce6e66b2b96d397