Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a893d2af8ba0ff3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 04:20:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: bc5ebb493ca858f5ff0100a400c4ef0b SHA-1: cfde84967713fe80ac92083d101b66660e6f3943 SHA-256: 8a893d2af8ba0ff3dddd161b0906a440f8f8abafc00464123289c7d7377fbce6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host malicious files. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/esqdm4b22if9te29h80smer0pu/28027159652.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thegioidongphuc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wogobejurexoxefasamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da349cbf49633290f929ac65aede9a8f/sisarepidojotadudizux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torbay.ru/images/uploads/file/pevibaneja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1398e85c9---38361997144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094dee228905---22747952371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792add8ae58---pifepisobagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161214d7fabf67---xorowakodumelukuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgd42.ru/userfiles/file/tofemanebegowolotasefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upoart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89795352782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-souz.com/userfiles/file/vajimod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vyveva.eu/UserFiles/File/238729764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://warsztatgdynia.pl/app/webroot/media/files/19540803759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdb45f36241---rafaparikudawubow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisaarkinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/negugovakoguzuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dfc4d558ea---5597074326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f17f4467c49adfc383b87800a2f5eb7/tutomavilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9965296082c284187302c16e62780707/12381338562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/wonugafuwomajofanirovam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee523c60aa6---23340578214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-room.co/userfiles/file/kijuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpital-sulecin.pl/images/fckfiles/file/48516472403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/207c90f18a4c730fed231a92fd992d06/fapanap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=gymtopz+guia+de+alimentacion+pdf+gratisPDF 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_off0000ca3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA3E 11276 bytes
SHA-256: fe181b78a718cac1e6af7c83a87a2ace8e9ca6a697b20d5fd475007b5361dc22
font_01_sfnt_off0000e495.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE495 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fca7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCA7 18512 bytes
SHA-256: 588cfc5ffe74705e73cbca6b954c4e8a1108c2b9c31ea5cefd4553f668ac24fc