Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a85be6c4c0ba94e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 03:51:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e4d8eba84e4c5be98186f796a2b979d8 SHA-1: b4178ea7c582ae2a929b625634b6dac7da70c05e SHA-256: 8a85be6c4c0ba94efdc975795efc5bd7647f5adc3cf4f0b3b424432a69884cb1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://www.naabelectric.com/userfiles/files/vibamakezedewududa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mavachhaiphong.com/upload/files/jirodikonerilofatanige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--djr00fsyfv0o5qgy9u.com/filespath/files/20210916025949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://institut-arabe.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rokuzomel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malir-naterac.info/UserFiles/File/47198460200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcarnet.com/home/sandbox/domains/hkdance.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75969502359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614502670b31f---misuxokugev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161349ce65e49d---10769444811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.willmarareachamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fewafadalebetokotureboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/bexebajexeworadumexikom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141d318a3c2b---3679750412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livilgirls.com/files/gorawopivafixuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-paca.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/jifejorikeponevaponev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ufolep-69.com/contenus/files/29778040450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pergamine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fedanofopow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mallenmediations.com/mallenmediations/images/userfiles/file/wojub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuklearmedizin-amro.de/userfiles/file/13165193677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a12cc16d1007523726305a5266c622e6/24887822013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ariaparvaz.com/basefile/ariaparvazcom/files/15355552848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xmst.com.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/batozuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135f6a7064d8---rewuxelokusegozifelaxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportingfoundation.com/uploads/file/ragubovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://websbag.com/uploads/files/doxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rlangkhan.com/upload/userfiles/files/7381129816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corpus.bg/files/fck/file/masatekero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=curious+george+free+pdfPDF 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_off0000d03c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD03C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e84e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE84E 18520 bytes
SHA-256: 40900107831d7e730b11ccdd55d3e51888c632923c0c0d3d47a466ae38b06038
font_02_sfnt_off00011925.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11925 10392 bytes
SHA-256: 0345cd4816dee09e5a40809c1678f3ddeb2ffe5db52ec946da202a6ca9457a6d