Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a9504971abd08a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 03:54:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 3317b84fc4f1ef736ec61e459590def5 SHA-1: b95e0400818ec109587a812b4e8b664cf5021a8b SHA-256: 8a9504971abd08a0f08985ab76ae865a8844445606b4c9987b0e33ff74ea6f6e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with a high risk score. It contains multiple embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate it acts as a link farm, directing users to potentially malicious content hosted on compromised CMS uploads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43bd11e0b0d98243851adfe75269594a/42598841651.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ceeit77fqndiotj0g81qs07f5/wanilujafunudodegij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fiiks9a13nkaa5nbhrsg5hnufm/jumadujirasemukubexokim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed6c254a429a6359e650c02d25302aaf/92656666912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ada8ecb9770---pefotitozobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/mazufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/58503512284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vipbeachhouse.com/uploads/editor/file/xajudametesuzetodep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanbularicilikfestivali.com/upload/ckfinder/files/wuzuzet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://18554080.com/userfiles/file/piwiruruzorojil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fogathajtohirek.hu/fckfiles/file/nutaruwova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shtaket46.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/pegurivaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podushka.by/files/files/dapuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b575226cc89---dosulid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniquecharacters.com/upload/files/36691355605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d78a970eeae---58873098566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dvunmm030p9h23u4vv990bp07a/50297919658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djapm.com/userfiles/file/17387286595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1040b1b34a---9406535019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cff0d876d95262280c94daf47b1f6630/23206175014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emanuelmlevin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wekusisonajoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leebyunghun.org/new/upload/board/files/84435676489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01de97c6f57e474bf4fc7d0ebb0f863a/vupazut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anaminfo.com/attachfile/file/xusimorizexakemuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=persuasion+in+business+communication+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_off0000e096.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE096 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 2155565afc3f19f1c0d805ffe6361c286b779e5a90c3dde7c394d498f142a110
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9D8 17296 bytes
SHA-256: 17b31c6da688a043f5bf97bcfece1574e091fc50ba702cfc409e7dec333eeaa9
font_02_sfnt_off000126a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1