Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8bdfc7c5451ad735…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 11:00:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3e993acea6aacc098f7b1fb1aadfd334 SHA-1: 69d640283768d0220a68f8a294fd326ff055add1 SHA-256: 8bdfc7c5451ad7358e6b1624aa775bd8e8e41a4a41e506e9b10e916762dce201
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, which likely serve as a link farm to redirect users to malicious destinations. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of UTM parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the final malicious URL and potentially track user engagement.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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=how+to+open+up+xbox+one+controller
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160889a827b826---27135232127.pdf
    • http://xlsferrosilicon.com/d/files/24474352483.pdf
    • https://lazerom.pro/media/file/86144164235.pdf
    • https://pharma-tools.eu/galeria/file/55561979661.pdf
    • http://berallebags.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210512044820.pdf
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607048234c5c8---zosezevavulewobefemo.pdf
    • https://paron-rebondir.com/uploads/files/tapukojunugesedaxejezuvon.pdf
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3440547cf6---tupekedavowaxadozidiji.pdf
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609485257002b---zotonegujexajebi.pdf
    • https://orrizon.ru/images/file/38214946700.pdf
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a317c623618fbd4846a1a97ae8907fbe/wureni.pdf
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/901d125aed5ffa3b6ddd9f17543e0585/34840137971.pdf
    • http://ehoron21.mn/uploads/files/53680632298.pdf
    • http://tatishev.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10930711989.pdf
    • http://inglewoodreunion.com/clients/68690/File/wumelowuta.pdf
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9a016506ac---piwadage.pdf
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dbb1490d80f6019497ea48fc1be1603/junezuxagogizupawo.pdf
    • https://willmarareachamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42435525512.pdf
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/22331453941.pdf
    • http://kustari.net/userfiles/file/24942872981.pdf
    • http://kaitosushisb.com/uploads/files/zezowalotut.pdf
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ph59f8tuohutgekbh5bpp0s6ga/nojejapo.pdf
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b1ce3125487faf82b39b80e493d89f3/jajawixawuloj.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_off0000c58a.bin
49b6e62a66a23b9ef25f15d2c6f5f21dd936c1ab2dccdc39112871c60dd4836d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC58A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0f3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0F3 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001090a.bin
185633f4a013f6992ca3fcf280e104a11d80acfae595b9c3fe7301097b80901a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1090A 10364 bytes