Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d0ab42250aafb5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-08-22 01:45:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: edf6021535b98cd1f3e72dbe91b000ba SHA-1: 0db9b6072471b889edad2fa986890bebc843040d SHA-256: 8d0ab42250aafb5a3d2f5d20e6d67cf642bd0f79f8b54bff993c086547bc83af
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute phishing content or malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics supports this attack pattern.

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 https://siam-royal-view.ru/data/files/72895694468.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.servicioscalibrados.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76d659c7b66407f7b99059ef9949a920/girefetirowusanedogasuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://codemessaging.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99068354872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dbf6d0ab69---61235597975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hhskoc6h1s0qmthhicjssd1mo3/64668742459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/8458222206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://badischer-kunstverein.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9870543867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1mrvo3lre4vgsamjipduo3e3uh/97993273626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3842bc1bcb43baac9cb42c443d0c8cf2/sixokagulabixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://01host.ru/userfiles/files/fibemexagawirovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7seapharmtech.com/Uploadfiles/files/vimabavafelikoledon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160887ed4c3580---43431535066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.id/userfiles/file/58447215259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poddertradingandindustries.com/userfiles/file/zajijemitaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://navigator-nsk.ru/userfiles/file/mifozupajatalagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1adrijbbb.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/nivulukasunefuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fd5d387a4a---2455053951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://96rangjai.com/userfiles/file/tujaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/wumunivanegikawovusaxiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arvikabc.com/images/uploadedimages/file/muvesapememarimupubojunob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160783a76911c5---25938920109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diaochue.vn/userfiles/file/xemejatodobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nirmalujjwal.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nizifovegonuzizok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ca5b20d987---gamokigekirewup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d8edeec61---23200684763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=meaning+behind+841+angel+numberPDF 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_off0000d68c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD68C 16952 bytes
SHA-256: ba25dfd8e9337d0c46f47aaf5e1770e300036df3ffc9b69cc2028c907ef9d399
font_01_sfnt_off000102b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ac9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AC9 10880 bytes
SHA-256: b74690b1f8169ea4e6c37eafb5299d8608f90e365753766151da5eb03f9d2610