Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c734860071cd071…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-07-05 02:42:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 464c577d5faea1be1bfbcc18dc306379 SHA-1: 803fafd61cffb3377fbc6676ca506db187e1b66b SHA-256: 8c734860071cd07118caa0cc496c267805366eaabcea8a8d2bbde8fbb76d5cfe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of numerous links, including those pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggests an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://dabbleanddesign.com/clients/c/c6/c60e280709801842a26e47e23f21f170/File/tusozivibebopo.pdf
    • http://gchs1969.com/clients/867877/File/nuxovotubepikan.pdf
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099e23396305---lazokupujevole.pdf
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-5/file/41489882982.pdf
    • http://forresterfamilyreunion.com/clients/c/cc/cc72bfd2512333311cc1ef5a4fdef90f/File/45873747596.pdf
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f93418c2f06e36a619f5f1af4e34837d/11572162971.pdf
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075891985c77---88307764615.pdf
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb5a7706ec6---tigezilupimoxeruzazapud.pdf
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0f8ac5582726966df0e575bb01807f7/84066538951.pdf
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce25c956da1---94333646389.pdf
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9puqepu6nmv9sp9cclih711on7/fapubegomulozadulijed.pdf
    • http://studiogeologicotrilobite.com/userfiles/files/lugejulavipoveduguvib.pdf
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ae8e46f16e---xirikisitarogosawefesuva.pdf
    • http://cnzhongkui.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/uploads/file/181837544092.pdf
    • http://bbfederico2.net/userfiles/file/pupifimilezeraxixe.pdf
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c18af64155f---44850420724.pdf
    • http://uticahighclassof78.com/clients/8/89/89c70e22fe5ad1405280b455f64975d7/File/lefawodosopusivemiperipon.pdf
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9kuqplglj9ab199a3vium2pv9o/losinigomunufirabev.pdf
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5a018eefe6---notamin.pdf
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23590680d566b5ad648b52391da031d6/kerinenuteneriku.pdf
    • http://poltinik.ru/userfiles/file/56655956027.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=pet+stores+near+me+that+sell+rats
    • 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_off0000f14e.bin
61c10da6d28712ed5bec07bc52c637417e293b0232447e0108da7d3a6f770256
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF14E 17328 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011e6e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E6E 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013685.bin
9830900125d1f1111df979bab7f10e4c090e07a0f0514000ccc0fe092ace3705
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13685 10280 bytes