Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a876da8d489728b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 20:44:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 514fb5e76f5e46691d9c4e7fc35fa578 SHA-1: 94af95fb7fcf45c7628e9e62f8f4154c1e1a3e11 SHA-256: 8a876da8d489728bfb001dbf302f289090346998f17d550b1361ddcc1425bf9f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting. This behavior is indicative of a link farm, often used for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious nature of this PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9837

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://iscyber.com/userfiles/files/wedav.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c6537945743d0ac5d3747363bc6b354/19988541141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progetec.org/userfiles/files/19137952954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parklanehotel.asia/userfiles/file/71843844649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://absolut-fit-and-dance.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4v1bcd8rd8bgar7ltjr8bi4ar2/80320171929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18b01853b86b4e12464b7215293061be/gibokisufonikinuvedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luatsugiadinhviet.com/upload/ck/files/74014370169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rklatex.com/userfiles/file/bukiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a48c61701b3---zunekebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ezgoe.com/10005001208290177/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vipereb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moiarchitekci.pl/pliki/file/morajel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b248d52f9---vadosumawevumibuvixoruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf3eb22259---18115898032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teleinwestor.com/userfiles/file/kovilulere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michaelwilliamslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fubebidovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itchanoi.vn/uploads/news_file/mukun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnkcreations.com/userfiles/file/fusezuronuvolob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160789eefc24eb---guwedalot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.weldcor.ca/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gabelapepupepilez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otevrel.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dotaxapule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://98ing.com/upload/ck/files/20210902_160621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bio-obst-und-gemuese.de/userfiles/file/raxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2a35f55e9d---karoronomudilofuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crosswaysrecruitment.com/userfiles/file/duxofofikelibonaxovisezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magic-mugs-factory.com/uploadfile/files/meledariburawiwizezisad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodottoitalia.eu/userfiles/files/dumejijanipum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608325a6261c6---jutidixafuxulapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somersetcountybar.org/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/79718504492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=non+smoking+policy+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_off0000ba42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA42 16008 bytes
SHA-256: 366263fe2f56fc26f4e6eeb7b79accaede7963fe5c647b3985460448e87bcfd9
font_01_sfnt_off0000e334.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE334 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 2dac8af69eda1bcfc9e4c6292f92a7a65e0dba12bdef9ba17f4d6d939a1c80b2
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB5B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1