Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8acb208a561cf4e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 12:13:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 8d495c6511d36d79171465eb614f8fd1 SHA-1: e08e29751091dbc6d8a4f2bdd90477f038a3b5c7 SHA-256: 8acb208a561cf4e0c283c603a2034d541e2ebd4270b608b6d322819ea147d649
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute phishing content or further malware. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a deliberate attempt to create a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting, likely to evade detection and spread malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+conjuring+2003 PDF link annotation
    • http://portalkucharski.pl/app/webroot/media/files/vokonurelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4e11155350---4708761733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e90a799be7---85996662002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64646310551d9c97ce204fb60b83cd35/16146744559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asianmosaicnyc.com/userfiles/file/74856229471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09ae0353bb8f9085575eccf30d002185/fedejar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609de8b9a81a8---88630409404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/16557136141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avsa.org/sites/default/files/images/files/22392313043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160986a17ab33f---pikar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b3be3a782---92148778314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160774102dbc6a---62655492501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menuiserie-sainte-anne.fr/userfiles/file/bonidirapokelezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ef0e255a4c---xugowaxekaronufekede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfccecd5856---8097361058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95f88805e718a8d49d7934a75f10b394/fazifapowuwusawodafadili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madiagranitosilano.it/userfiles/files/5626582259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deltagroup.bg/uploads/file/10092097328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607071a032c91---61547673681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoangnhataudio.vn/media/files/95248975650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608675d70e643---texar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5810c237d3---kasuwekejisamibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3995c51f4e674c1dba799b25934ebf9b/lubokumigogavajugilaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuduchouse.vn/pics/file/wolanokasupusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ffab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFAB 20292 bytes
SHA-256: ecb0e690ef9384583612f32841a2bc0b137ac9bb764cd7aa965bb9397aa73f45
font_01_sfnt_off00013234.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13234 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014a4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A4B 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 4ca25538c74fde12f917bf654afc6f1e9788fdc67e87215fc589205e7a7a300d