Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d4aadc5cc01f0e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-07-06 23:53:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 98ba11f42468ce539972a5fe6684c7a5 SHA-1: 890407e481e0489a9b25902a82c603f18da575fe SHA-256: 8d4aadc5cc01f0e1b23deb78184073ecce6ba10bf33a832065acdbd2443d7948
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and it contains numerous embedded URLs. Several heuristics indicate that these URLs are part of a link farm, with some pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. This suggests the PDF's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/60156172388.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb57eeb9bf---49909165565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5b73dacd7341e2c94d610961a2e024e/wazugamuruvudifimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d82eb0d580ffe8369a679b58ab025ccb/40360361388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novamakine.com/upload/ckfinder/files/mamarenobuxebefilona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e49af89551---33444324625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hpworld.hu/data/pic/Image/file/29494236141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c38e3fe39c142408d4b7356490cb95de/34145341373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bee57c6211---zekovobemunesijejixex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdjcm.com/upload/files/39111974872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/61142904625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansecyr.ca/pdf/file/selotidirupexenobexogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ortodonciaelisafarache.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49838049900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sfeerweter.nl/userfiles/files/79066303850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecnoservizi.com/userfiles/files/65459825372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wallsfamilyreunion.com/clients/876683/File/vurawajiwesiwuzowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c431aa110a8---mepitoboxuvevux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5j40lfidnqeflsm71at0fctcl4/98412803866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93s236rv4ijns5bhiq83spd3pt/67616547704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://footballsod.com/images/ck-uploads/files/12628766408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbfrontedelmare.com/userfiles/files/738017282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p9465noacge4ngik425hd2joq4/nimovadewoxorilewidokozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a4afae78e6297f8101ced6ffdf95ccd/guvubufesawovotugirope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=sbac+test+answersPDF 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_off0000e603.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE603 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE15 16584 bytes
SHA-256: c7b825197c24d3356ed3aed24de83c22eca0354433a2210a31ee9ec8b7a5d742
font_02_sfnt_off00012864.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12864 10268 bytes
SHA-256: 0b4cbdc5b600ea115b3184220d7c074f7e0c3fbab58d6cc30486a50fe0f4d616