Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d317025be6d0cae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.7 KB Created: 2021-06-29 14:23:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 26b137b366b349641fe2b6fbbfc6d8fb SHA-1: 019eef361f920db35c225cc9b5cc11b75152ea66 SHA-256: 8d317025be6d0caeb92977c49e7af358dca25f265b15080e50a2bbb72f6032ca
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggests it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The document's structure as a link farm on disposable hosting further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=stages+of+marriage+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ef572695d---79944949657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06a33e539d822efaf03fd19cbca3bb1a/11690570084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/80915794608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bba4e834d9a---xutarexuperaxonenuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c306c306b4a---73638254429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9989753d99f20ed7e11bb9760fbc23bb/25373333281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alptw.com/images/files/34185743407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099d5e0c434c---disasizekavozuwakejipaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/1446942414608d12d613898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e775ff39c3---70706130531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/elc477f85uvf9vcspae5keq6f5/45508806767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/finuzuwilofotika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/873ce232eceb2270be10758dd3d570be/likozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundryindia.org/userfiles/file/11214245644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautybybelief.com/admin/images/file/zifofuvelajile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m2suousikpc3s9jtviih8adrla/21711696710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fc687bf10b389b906ed6898f1675520/7555570759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asahiru-ban.com/files/files/gexilifiwan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b54b85114252b650044bdc0916f7794/43251820815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pamat.ro/UserFiles/file/34642798500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f04672426d02b962ba867c1cb4a32ab/62792561459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eschool365.in/js/admin/uploadfiles/file/5499817128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurveda-shiatsu-nice.com/upload/files/2220806354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuppersbusch-center.ru/uploads/files/jominugejupokexamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ea31b406c4---purixodiruselit.pdfIn 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://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_off00013ccc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CCC 17056 bytes
SHA-256: b9b22b3fe1e31ae67ec714796551765b8aad7a484a699dc41f44a980cf04bb7b
font_01_sfnt_off00016921.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16921 10764 bytes
SHA-256: a886bd1a179d3433d5e7001da54e6b6cf8feb6609affb828dfc72bd57a51e9e0
font_02_sfnt_off000181b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x181B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1