Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d168fca296a79d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.3 KB Created: 2021-06-11 02:23:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 9ae0597b0be3f4b0313ea180f60aee0d SHA-1: 299bdf52dd79f7df134c7a550e408f3f969437ac SHA-256: 8d168fca296a79d2bf88d16ff6d94a3d0f32bfa679c643f925132692e9fd5893
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports this, pointing to a link farm strategy to obscure the final destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kedi+the+chosen+one+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2f5d0d1b1dfdcd7d584a39d55e74fca/fezusidorirewema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1kmka01pnokq9hq7r9up8htef0/13476628789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d44d22d9bddaa5fb061e57700f5aebb2/68534986741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carzip.biz/files/uploads/files/mujoxajosolijemapifotad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiehuist.com/userfiles/files/84248930310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/gemafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6h400m90osm9iutcm84lp4a1o2/xamenebuxewogixixapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a014349091f76bce9a14fab895d66f0/jurabunarefixalupogedusor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uaio8lbrndutsfjbbh6286icfu/juvalitab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22nucqp4uaehqjt2nessual0k8/teveju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0f10e16011---najofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cab315d67c961fc1a832bff639c63472/xiwotasuwovipipanizola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608daba737bb3---vobidologi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://timjanen.se/anvandarbilder/53/files/67546514784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/rofusukopukexakelibafix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/vegibuvuxamopikuwoxuzovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cfc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFC0 4876 bytes
SHA-256: d6ba044acaa8d63bc05d8936e46bf4836bc3af5ecbabebf0ab40a9d4a9dcb336
font_01_sfnt_off0000e062.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE062 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 2a6b471c1c49597868c5a07fe2ada08ca55c456627cc121ebc121417845cc0cf