Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d263409a2142788…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-06-25 16:46:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 5a487de8b15300739253f9a8c65c29a1 SHA-1: 93d3357027edd21198099c388956b05afc6a2d1b SHA-256: 8d263409a21427882ad0f71ded7f1fbb7989a1b1e49435b4973be05d5a1b1de9
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.5708

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=thin+blood+during+periods PDF link annotation
    • http://stroisvias.ru/userfiles/file/61670421217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b605c40d741---lanafofujovisogud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbd75295542---11071888097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://escaletravel.com/userfiles/files/wuwumov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apluskleaning.com/admin/images/file/21346803946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://misosmile.com/upload/editor/files/8362382749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldmustang.com/files/files/jikomol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4df8c49f93fa895628598cbb2a7e4877/69882170378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a676c9a31d6---devek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaragozalawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/28230693006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bldc9tf69lhp37mf6rlvr40j26/25927167014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8573eddcd014e7a2a5850617fd7d7c4d/wapozenubawebatunajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textolinguisticsolutions.com/upload/editor/file/lukilopepof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d8ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8EF 10616 bytes
SHA-256: cace3e4d56c14c983d2a9c091f7f81e6bc0c2e37586d862d5b0fca7000565155
font_01_sfnt_off0000f096.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF096 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1