Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ca1152d45849d58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-09-26 02:18:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 9861828ee75bb013cba332e59b5d8074 SHA-1: b432bd45e6aa7a1ce3e7fe22680a99749c25f6f7 SHA-256: 8ca1152d45849d58b57fb10648a77b8592850e1d6f4204bba0b02f4b34695dfc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external, potentially malicious content, aligning with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://woft-dining.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/bigoliwukekudirowaje.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://diskacme.dk/images/upload/file/rajirenizoramifatevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4c750f6614fb0087a504226b01dec95/36495282201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xyr59.com/filespath/files/20210923105320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cainghienbinhduong.com/uploads/userfiles/file/vedijuvobodukis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpm-sa.com/userfiles/file/22697681894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globomax.eu/userfiles/file/45654539067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l7o9m5gdh88smbvbloso4feq53/13170170530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141f9930e5d6---61397050962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htbestcomputer.com/media/ftp/file/56837075168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b52d9e18cd---nukozatorenevafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gencerenerji.com/resimler/files/70066165464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/xajisovuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinkler.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32007043966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a92777596f---49017033351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tutek.eu/userfiles/file/mudosaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136633cece3b---vegapexanutekizafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsclinic.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/juvifemaxiwule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hindustanadvancedsolution.com/t/tutorfirm/uploads/ck/files/konoziwakenabeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://captainkillmite.com/uploads/files/202109110110158182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makiriaszto.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nulevub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53793be6d4c31b7feba73beebbec7d2c/loxologomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandarinkinesiska.com/userfiles/file/19307540474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berallebags.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210903235628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=android+tv+vs+fire+tvPDF 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_off0000b612.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB612 18640 bytes
SHA-256: 8f967736e39122b310188654b5d43b1424edec0347e8adfe103f33432e81c0c6
font_01_sfnt_off0000e51a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE51A 10184 bytes
SHA-256: 193c8b3a809c880debc9da18ceab36d97b2d7c612b15cb1f47e4aa2bf8f6a094
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC12 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1