Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ad2252823840bf5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 17:28:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 436e4c27afd2f7b570a3af9e2706a9cb SHA-1: 124afbc30b20e39311454d6e6994d5f124080e41 SHA-256: 8ad2252823840bf595f77a0a5f63d3e9328c2db001d77ce8926e7b7263fc221d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content. The document likely aims to trick users into downloading a secondary payload by presenting itself as a desirable file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://banghetretunhien.com/media/ftp/file/43257752635.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://atdawnwelift.com/userfiles/file/77040102142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa64f8c859a---gugoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pololanna.com/user_img/files/kuzuzuzowovukafixakuzibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinivetmadonnadirosa.eu/userfiles/files/49904659356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b22686af52d16b52ff084d3e0a3b530d/44077129422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anjilh.com/uploadfile/file///2021042915234076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nail-free.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gepojeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d125ca70bb376e8194ba80b9ba0e12b/72023049154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prieteniitehnicii.ro/documente/file/43302439597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alubiasdetolosa.com/files/galeria/files/lokemiran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmdfhjl.com/fckeditor/userimages/file/zefagojaxafofixajedaduzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karpataljaturizmus.hu/upload/tanot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtcnx.com/upload/fckimagesfile/befugemivupifodigerawew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boschvietnam.vn/files/usersfiles/files/85492273320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607faba4701ab---31903079560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/35396694627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4404964236ad66afedafa8cb723c4db/73940802716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab0437a4620fe94a781917162253234f/putupanuzedowerep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://free-note.kr/files/fckeditor/file/569439070613081ae0b973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portableandcool.com/files/files/95361218077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savitapiti.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zevulifodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161237bbd52920---19401677703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/boraxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnrealestate.in/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/supipevozavolazimugor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=speakout+upper+intermediate+student+book+2nd+edition+answer+key+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_off0000c5a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDB9 17248 bytes
SHA-256: 9868d6a17b46f8917fc9cd08947100a77c105451885dcad50532f8a2423dd52b
font_02_sfnt_off00010b0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B0A 11340 bytes
SHA-256: 577f488e6e8199d65919a9300d549bfe8fb4e78b85bf61803c03f94c376167dc