Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ab5915d62a3e7ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 05:49:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 302bc0c42f8dde9cf1838d4066c319b6 SHA-1: f258521899dcfe23b0509497d7dc168197864cec SHA-256: 8ab5915d62a3e7ce4266f99a81b7e9325e818c8dc5bd932c257f8776a59308c5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the detection results point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70274963dd06a83ab891569bba3c1dfa/sefiwapamomurujuzuriwusis.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dudikom.pl/userfiles/file/64218032744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carneslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/76612169429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://app0.linkeo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98359354475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colantuono.it/userfiles/files/telulefupikaxasipagefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienlanhhonganh.com/images/pic/file/firininirojexelovel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busanpc1.com/upload/fckeditor/file/damurulovixurel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andersonlawdecorah.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/15431112842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paron-rebondir.com/uploads/files/kaditedinisibimosifod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pampa.be/uploads/userfiles/files/98166512342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://howsonfamilyreunion.com/clients/5/57/57b8fe7d350e782a16e6afc8bdcd6467/File/16214708375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://debcopharma.com/userfiles/file/vibeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sfe5ltkvbfktdm1hobnc93qnr4/kedezezexituwas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jandebruijn.com/uploadimages/files/tapumejowubel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evevoyance.fr/adh/.-/file/63727115142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-tms.com/uploadpic/xw/files/58258329313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graczeonline.pl/userfiles/file/93846589805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160771929e7a91---dusoveridasedoname.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalsteakandstogie.com/clients/1/1d/1dbb6d5698303b6304ae84622e226a19/File/pupozuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestocktool.com/d/files/41426432209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torgradio.ru/new/files/file/20987571315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5302813556---53152782942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d827855310---vorovevazenomub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yokosohk.com/files/fckfiles/file/69660149272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c67cdda7b60---51920264586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=kassakian+power+electronics+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_off0000ded1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDED1 17512 bytes
SHA-256: 9de3d9f970eddb22765f495cc2be4937c7eb64e8cf669361c199d40d4d6d4a5d
font_01_sfnt_off00010be0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BE0 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 1dd33c93156afa99355eac26c4e91a6415706be851d01dbeb84d841f97bb93fb
font_02_sfnt_off000124ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1