Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8cbda8460a0b71a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-08-10 05:15:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c55f48152925b167275d0c9fc039bb0d SHA-1: e8e7afbae44e04cd871418f0adae8bc2fba61180 SHA-256: 8cbda8460a0b71a7433b03bb9bb02a06162987e09f44aafe8548c49c98707f56
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. These links likely serve as a distribution mechanism for phishing or malware, potentially exploiting vulnerabilities within the PDF reader.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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 http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/44419514073.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50b81b9dedb4a166aa1f12114c7620b5/zeregomakitofikovawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/529793db96af3913865dc31f813db860/42803127196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iominneapolis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fef40e549ab7da6e2896d9f32198464/32136607075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coevent.ru/upload/files/70511053811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merwepizza.com/upload/file/nubedoxapozumuxila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ed0fe9eb9---giguvarojizumika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4e9c68c22---24794068968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meganimal.pt/site/upload/file/murixasonimazafubolewuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/081debe365f644e8419df8c95984da61/38252037348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c932bb1046---31821231390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidfabrication.com/public_html/userfiles/file/gilogiraterowawebizitiseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biocoils.com/img/file/vadabiviniwixajizurez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ue6i6bgqsva28jfhac2b7pv2o3/vewitasonosivedox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tractorpulling-emmeloord.nl/upload/file/24106669178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cableesmaltado.com/d/files/52241831614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bataretak.com/img/files/file/68960102265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608acc640b956---68141081944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/wivedule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d33fe4bf74c---21049597618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fgsconsulta.com.br/ckfinder/uploads/userfiles/files/80277055670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://em-mould.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/daliju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/vizusev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f52df015dc93138f3680e16e316d5789/kubagojepixirewesemovub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tovicetour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210708_A956D242E75495AA.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+enlarge+something+with+scale+factorPDF 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_off0000f23b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF23B 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 14334ae387fe4996479150b2e8bae45276fbea1e3bcbb5d1fbeefdac1f88db23
font_01_sfnt_off00010b27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B27 17684 bytes
SHA-256: a2bff669ab3994a05ed186d986dd68f65898c18f73b00de26307dcf43e9cc9e2
font_02_sfnt_off00013977.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13977 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1