Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c84e414a12bf9f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-08-17 11:28:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 2f4093dd3c6dd22ea35b388829f4d77f SHA-1: 81ceb2936c7724abbec1187516069966743cfcdd SHA-256: 8c84e414a12bf9f221357118d6a6091a2f06bebf538b6923af7a3df062c53f46
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ee4d15431f---13167813669.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d40f9478caa---zezejitupuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dk1uu1q7alk73e5eb2ij430i8g/dubusefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d0b21f19b6---meboxogevimevifuvoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wadsoda.com/UserFiles/File/tonuzegujovon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalitelivideoizle.com/resimler/files/nomivovunurulogoxarokige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1b08988889d8487c0ce9e66ccb65ebf/tosubozepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rana-international.com/userfiles/files/45802011763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608743b36f6a1---kabagapituta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/nonafedasovemup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd6c5f3cef0---31525663999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5554ded12f01444946fb76aa4b7c6c93/35384669396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sjalikave.hu/pictures/file/65475929752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ba16448795---timeminoveri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070418ad9862---winize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cb96b8b7b52579b1e9cd1b3eb970523/felosufajikabefedijumeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bancodevida.com/bancodevida/admin/images/image/file/60854311253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be5078443f4---rejabimafixuvufazevajik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cablexconsulting.com/Upload/file/rivibanuxisilutaxujeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac49a37b76f---5878104295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digidatadecolombia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4867283878db28814a4da6ed1d824fb8/87222726125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/gupixosotub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acronimocostanzo.com/userfiles/file/8349524065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608580da590e1---88003789551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balade-pierry.fr/userfiles/file/kebiwigat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=millennium+parking+tiles+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_off0000d6b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6B6 18048 bytes
SHA-256: 205813ff5faed412947ce6f212946e9c32660592d0a2f1866a7840d7556b04e9
font_01_sfnt_off000105a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105A2 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 989105b1cc54d8da7a2152ed53dcb7fc0df0f09bbf990702ef43741258d865de
font_02_sfnt_off00011ea3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EA3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1