Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c9347d40cbd8b1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.8 KB Created: 2021-08-14 10:44:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: db43d7e24a6ee28757fbef76fccaff93 SHA-1: 65a8f6cdc5b1fa6beee249e3fb767df0555f4333 SHA-256: 8c9347d40cbd8b1ed683e6c992cd722c22594a03ecda7e7741671ae22b0022d4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://blevy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jakupovapizitevipefusob.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/788631aeef0e1be8a68af41e10b99ad2/kunalapagumef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///numovemaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoatuoi360.vn/uploads/files/2423228778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/8051753889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimdaiphatsteel.com/Images_upload/files/nuserimonovasixat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l4l1bvp9lq04spauhdag1jgk1c/gubupejotig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c0f46505c6688e2c1c1b190c9412515/sisolazobumugewivupas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160850d68d44c6---5268639885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be10ba4f527---52115377563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infrastone.com/userfiles/files/88609931184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/xabilobilopimopikax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrarontani.it/userfiles/files/rikuzotumanup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160be5bf1dad8d---tulumove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ousaqeq611ci00ssv1oqd95o1j/8765174939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0ceef1757---vudeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160854f908f3ab---nafenerevukujuket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e5895c831f---27359726848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebco.ru/images/file/diwubumipepabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infoenergie-loire.org/userfiles/file/78154322469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartopack.com/Images/file/bitita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5b741bd25a---35683609646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibliotekaszamocin.pl/img/upload/files/kofexetopiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alessandrobelleseveterinario.eu/userfiles/files/36311138275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=autodwg+pdf+to+dwg+converter+2020+keyPDF 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_off0000fc42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC42 32408 bytes
SHA-256: d68d6a9fb795465308b7f83ae7403effcdeb7924c794b4c45220f47e9aee2a0a
font_01_sfnt_off00013ea8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EA8 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 0ff32d8445abffe5acf287cec83de05cc85ef350c2767c484af380567cd4dbd6
font_02_sfnt_off0001585b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1585B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1