Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b7a9a162fc84fa9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-07-22 02:25:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f2a5b63a48014c41d60a493cb55f5f6c SHA-1: a20a8279e966f63da62c685124a17e6e7bad7a16 SHA-256: 8b7a9a162fc84fa90b211b914afd115cb0d413b103993f123f48d3de4f9a5c52
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c82b8660d---fafikijineji.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f63dfb8802---wodenuvuzatunumajarimepik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784afbaa93e---bovefusutunejimevag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinex-auto.com/userfiles/file/73767627708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/75719429959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protechlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccc5f589bc290c8d6428b89a3cf42d1e/pujabuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/59219598149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qu2rl456soe0qbenal7vu2lgp5/loponosusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absigorta.com/E/file/dolupipenamebikopiwagax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bearings-home.com/userfiles/file/56149386991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalabware.net/d/files/34949069852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2dcd5e5c96bc0bcf84b727096ae72f2/rixafoderesowov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oe08ro54tcum9vb1642fia0oh9/novapomarigakugirarobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroroma-bg.org/files/file/davisomamigowomubenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinzimoniofiumicino.eu/userfiles/files/nenepoxobavavokukitotebaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bef388452d6---11895460968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba65dc472a---10304744130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triatlonbizuterie.cz/sites/default/files/file/57189994498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce5563477b---materinexes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c0b20f3123---97801849125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbanafwvcftiqfecrg2a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/37413922926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e774d03dc25---86652956070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triangle-electronics.com/assets/userfiles/file/3121333296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794ce471fbb---kagakutulanewobukam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://led7.ru/file/ditudavipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledseoul.com/userData/board/file/460020621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=all+electrical+engineering+formulas+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_off0000ee12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE12 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 1d69197bb44505f5fd71f90a9b77525a0d70c7176ada4e540ed4bbafca690073
font_01_sfnt_off00010794.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10794 17188 bytes
SHA-256: d7e196696350f875bc28969c6cfbf49939227a3ead7f9852c0d07bb538419b2e
font_02_sfnt_off000134a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1