Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d360c58a1d0cafa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 21:56:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f2aeaa92f38ecf107e4bd1c99825282c SHA-1: 09cf00cce1810c2f37234638a26f39f1f54a4f70 SHA-256: 8d360c58a1d0cafa4cda5717e4e1f6916345d519193bf26839ccdd17353596ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users to phishing or malware sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the heuristic firings strongly suggest a malicious redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04359f93a67873c7149e15f757b2d1c6/rasamuja.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fqcycpa.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210714124933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160736e152fb36---92873129286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjjiffy.com/upload/31746415286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edu-mate.kr/_UploadFile/Images/file/bufajeromud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4efedd4210---pevirunugas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiberglasssupplydepot.com/userfiles/file/penizivitazen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1ff2a1271---nupewefuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monktonlionsclubkidscamp.com/clients/9/99/99b8b5517e5fb663501b7ee5137ebf55/File/jokuxevobebipaxokafesen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyseg.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/misesuxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirche-treuen.de/UserFiles/File/zuvola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://islandpointfl.com/userimages/74722548126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987a2bb81b0---68035621197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077186f7a940---kowuredagoxivavuliwisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.electricman.in/demo/frontend/web/uploads/files/vetaduborigafuratuzagiral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b6ada5982---zufabevelobadezibeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087cb1b8a8ed---dorivuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amazingindiaphotos.com/amazingindiaphotos//upload/fckimage/file/jefodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.letspassdriving.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc7gs2oof6fj3eo89f040l7mj0/41296909670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://france-ex.com/images/blog//file/29180665183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58b5db8ea42a895d0d6d3c7a7eb9d88c/26936792307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carlaschroyen.com/content_docs/4664869855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/pukunamikudadilopewix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=discrete+mathematics+with+applications+epp+solutions+manual+pdfPDF 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_off0000c1a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1A9 11072 bytes
SHA-256: cb04a54cd7f673e9a29868c742a190cdd23345c1f862e2f333b9d0aaf9815e0c
font_01_sfnt_off0000db51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB51 17852 bytes
SHA-256: 67b1c5eb94f2a01718f25892c214330e4c85ef1c18462ae97701a4ff9e1646df
font_02_sfnt_off00010a00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A00 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1