Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d264c06d268e092…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.6 KB Created: 2021-08-23 20:50:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 355689ecb4d29b91d08d8d2fc62f420f SHA-1: 4688753aa4a3d925a0aa4014c930f82f9cdd01cb SHA-256: 8d264c06d268e092cabe2e3e696b950f81e848a06bf0cdfd739cef0054ce9fee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis are sufficient to determine its purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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 http://tw-echen.com/uploads/files/202108230701404487.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee34b4590b6c5d10e7b819418e55e195/duparinilulabisojuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/kurapekemagikefudabizoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leasebridge.com/CKUPimg/files/84825343345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68fd1be250887891d38736d43e06d7b6/gogefoxazodivafimorexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5m-tti.com/uploads/image/files/guvisiguvedirakisomojifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b62c7e8d39a---86849192233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33146abc8e82007b575ba8ee936b71d1/gogozonudob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unibox.lv/files/text/99485940396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/xupidir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/092b59a0724d907cc8bf93650059689f/46675929517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://almawred-sy.com/files/adminfiles/files/75817230139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b252093e0ac91a543592713e20844cd/sumepogisidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texasstatealphaxialumnae.com/clients/f/fe/fe72632f573fdc77cca6b85875c63e8a/File/77061657174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mt-filtration.com/uploaded/file/496974060bfa206ebd1a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puntolinea.org/userfiles/files/33781948506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0dd7694edf---bozuvibilegiwero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strap.sk/uploads/files/panelalitufalunav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nordicwalkingturak.hu/_user/file/zojipejugigujuvog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kunjipsc.com/uploads/files/37763862245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfalon.com/__files/file/22655813104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161103aaf8705d---51732620894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c11d3b0cc7403c60a3bd99695ad36843/pidetoronipogoruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b9aa7558b65ee2e0fecc2fc6ad8b104/mipukarepadaxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=old+dogs+legs+giving+outPDF 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_off0001052b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1052B 10352 bytes
SHA-256: bde98340f79de80f4d87f82d887b32c815c658468de13d54e76970b96fe7da7f
font_01_sfnt_off00011c73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C73 16576 bytes
SHA-256: 02f0c9e1745938513ae1d1718821d3d2c9934fb3a61aee4d3bc5a5d9b9fb951f
font_02_sfnt_off000147b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147B7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1