Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d06152aa62a1b83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-08-11 12:43:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ce8c2bdcfa2daf2206494b76c1384377 SHA-1: 503277521f69aac68371e8a1b0b61f9626d81179 SHA-256: 8d06152aa62a1b83d5e4435d853f267e10f1dc3cd29e6cebed094e4b0d8d250a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or use disposable hosting. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and the ML classifier's high confidence score suggest a malicious intent to trick users into downloading further malicious content. ClamAV also detected this file as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://oklasik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/deviberizavolipizuwo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fsanaq.com/upload/file/2107291529357204532t5kym8j4rg3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1c741efc32---mubofowetabutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5fe02b3cc---87266948738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michianaorchidsociety.org/clients/2/28/2832e32407c795c8d28ffe68102aa18e/File/48612917465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://albizy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69697901717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9c42b1c6d3---xuvube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumtinathholidays.com/admin/uploadfiles/file/gezaduta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q3vieed9r3angkflbivd8j99a1/29413866494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d1tutmnv5c00jlsejo2evjlbc/64483288293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c6e352419b---64498874810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610ee9418cb16---1404912758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d48sl8vfdap4us71qrhft6h2a5/6083164436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0965818789.com/CKEdit/upload/files/fakogarinogosamamapadowal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bede0ba2e1---renepiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c564a6f9b9---85954266853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/32059581771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermatologie-francophone.com/userfiles/file/pawafisalubajer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0676182dad---59360733515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.newhorizonscrisiscenter.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/doneguwixugojoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primaneighbors.com/userimages/44036641026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.srijonihealinghome.com/fckimages/file/gewesurefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e126a8e7005b634c6e0474f09aa1f61d/65733431183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=crash+bandicoot+warped+iso+pspPDF 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_off0000c419.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC419 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC2B 17028 bytes
SHA-256: 12866ab661b322032eb50f0ebe1e5285cd0b3f9daaad162f2c4d27c4377ff35f
font_02_sfnt_off000107f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107F0 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 2c969a8bd53206b4d990e7e9a32540c185b80d5704f37d356b151745eb95735f