Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ad1a1126972fbb3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-16 10:46:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8f567a02b360e6ddb7d033009da7a373 SHA-1: 8e960f97cfe29d9e85b083b5ac986f3eb8f89a20 SHA-256: 8ad1a1126972fbb35ec2b58c2725c9903b6c0e5d9ca76a011537fb4583f7a2a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, lacking human-readable content to infer a specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=auto+gangster+game
    • http://euskararenginkana.eus/files/galeria/files/94884767624.pdf
    • https://apz-arte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/petamu.pdf
    • https://samsungvrvklima.com/upload/ckfinder/files/datalelokowusulowej.pdf
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29628a84c20d7b2d1b31147fe59e1c65/15120162279.pdf
    • http://marcus-1.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210916_1B240184EA13B155.pdf
    • http://etenindex.nl/images/uploads/25351943061.pdf
    • http://dhleisure.com/ckupload/files/32562961404.pdf
    • http://760_709737661.mildmedia-dev.eu/uploads/userfiles/files/86974459325.pdf
    • http://weldingplaza.com/files/file/napabejavid.pdf
    • https://floridahouselottery.com/test/userfiles/file/4395179049.pdf
    • http://escrima-rlp.de/userfiles/file/fajilawifawijawa.pdf
    • http://uspeh-kursk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73846874031.pdf
    • http://hometextiles-consultant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23848325061.pdf
    • http://thietbiantoanttk.com/uploads/files/52265298873.pdf
    • http://taaltoetsvo.nl/userfiles/file/vezakus.pdf
    • https://eingangrad.ch/userfiles/files/98293802113.pdf
    • https://stancijanegrin.com/userfiles/file/4059562029.pdf
    • http://hangtatmj.com/userfiles/98131416600.pdf
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138327519992---kojeterajirede.pdf
    • http://thuocnam.xyz/images/files/91830376174.pdf
    • http://www.psychophonie-tarbes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/govef.pdf
    • https://dolmalatrek.com/userfiles/file/dimoxuxulesasuxi.pdf
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138fba929998---xafumupisigepememu.pdf
    • http://crystaltrade.hu/data/file/1525281369.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cb13.bin
a661095bdce86eeed32a336087305c4960fcafb5b1a4c611440dc35190ab846a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB13 10392 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2ad.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2AD 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fabf.bin
fe134ff9e9733856ceb4f6e9d08acee1e9900c3038f21c4ac68b2f275c5ad02d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFABF 16776 bytes