Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b426d81504bbb7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.8 KB Created: 2021-07-13 22:29:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 9efccc3bf93b55d18f8471111586b0a2 SHA-1: cd094ab76f8464d16c3948ea6ae92a8bc8428dbd SHA-256: 8b426d81504bbb7ba0637aaf77d0bbb25155e09682c696b628a0b484b3bce884
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results or direct users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly indicates a phishing or SEO poisoning attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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 http://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/pojaruzonuwow.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f12b2847a8---80087318821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021043023555473499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoprato.eu/userfiles/files/doseporadixelelivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63681486913c9c576737f4ade0650eea/tuxulinuwenojenowufotup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d072b359173---tegikebolabununibapuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c00730d30d6bf1fd8fef3aba775edbe7/tudefefawiwakusurexuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educhina.mn/editor/files/28044470197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160907f094ac7e---luxakugolugero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ecec862fe41---resalinekedizoxika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081fecf1ad7a---zanedetisidigip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://career-id.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vokozuziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92na8fhb0arqdo3gh86m75rcg0/49261291258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/xumoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pt2-turbo-j3t.com/contents//files/xowabodafikumalis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicornproduction.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f22e80dd6298af4b34277c1da248c2b/40857181307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glotecgh.com/upload/editor/file/mujapurorisototof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fa988cf9a46316604df4bee6ef81f72/78744678059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b25d2da28b7---mofuxosik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b0096baa2468d71e0eb84a76dde64df/84537580983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c5dd4fb70---givagepoziwuvutalexobop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djarkitek.com/temp/vinney/HTML/userfiles/file/30876470720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a581dc37598---15234187499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-1/20210601072738361629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o723im30n68nkkd8bh93kf3jpm/zaguruziwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=10+deposit+mortgage+first+time+buyerPDF 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_off00011fdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FDB 11120 bytes
SHA-256: 125fe4ffa4ba15e1a0413b41d424d59bf9215b31a96a9c56fbfeff38770aa08f
font_01_sfnt_off00013971.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13971 17028 bytes
SHA-256: 389d6aa7e41c3dad883b104654f5002ade4f29240d93028c4f7489c4b1ce4408
font_02_sfnt_off000165f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x165F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1