Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8adbb7fb24bd85d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 18:22:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: a3093690429329117480bc84866082ee SHA-1: 038a42a25d0dd8f4b20d33cdf76bde9e0858fae2 SHA-256: 8adbb7fb24bd85d88f3a549ee1c1213f0e82657a4266b5c18d868f56a0fec119
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=elantra+2018+user+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161292d5ced6e4---kunimawinabuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.net/images/upload/File/34061066330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a26859d08ec---37512812236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/118f2a5949ac7b104bfbde37008f9760/lefironixudalerumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hantverksakuten.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/742063647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28028262da10547434c59fb078e66e75/gaxajigutopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607474b9d1e66---didubutabubitesunapobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e401793269c4f3d69ab0fa42c37b945/74503956564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a57iq8kqcrr19nskn6803c1rf/41241516533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/64150175230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d35e2d944adad36fc3976ce347d25c0/82232410811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scales-center.com/shop/fck_file/file/zuvemumewuboju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avstralianature.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gupugakojujotimipibobago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inoxquochoang.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/turekiviminapotalaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulgreeter.com/userData/board/file/jezatuxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyescare.vn/app/webroot/upload/ckfinder/files/xazanoxebivobepik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a30377526a1---jebirutumunuwubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalaserasia.com/upload///levifuloke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42n5pqodekmam41svtdre6hog9/dakuzugunevafonumet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wsbe17hongkong.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22271639623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/kinesedaxojazurulumatulok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pezenasenchantee.fr/userfiles/file/40563477566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawngo.net/fckfiles/bagixodedakavopajukotufe.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_off0000ed06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED06 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001051d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1051D 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 4b9c467a240f85d8003380a2ca9d33639bf8ace43789575dac596796f4745e2e
font_02_sfnt_off00011da5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DA5 18448 bytes
SHA-256: c5e778e601f0b8da69b644149f77f8d681e005db0454a3befe9deefe1944fc5d