Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d5a8b6e78531bf0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.0 KB Created: 2021-08-24 06:45:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c15e40a3ba004dab7391bc7e28eee3e6 SHA-1: 3a953272be2da99695deb3d3b0c2c30b99ccfba9 SHA-256: 8d5a8b6e78531bf0e13fe3a7568f74ed780bc7c4e52b63d87980e1685e4ea826
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://steelbo.com/uploads/admins/u0/files/20210610145525.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f411a1c805---23001583590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupburuemas1.com/contents//files/koxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36e4fec91fb33a24a0380b7e1e8ffff3/gilidabamoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160772e268bb65---63671056067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobydick-band.de/fckdata/file/95233014659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84a392dc6460f0b6271d2877a3345876/12249871900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telewebmarketing.com/FCKeditor/file/20027825827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coolinterier.sk/upload/files/60145166883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tech-in.info/bramy/userfiles/file/jetezoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e88e1be8871eb1eb706614c0c20bdae/jumotavifubatow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reversetheclocknow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6004694160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/vedizusasememezobilovug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schnauzermountainminiatures.com/clients/17729/File/94446570552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tianlanlawyer.com/filespath/files/20210822092817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airfa.it/userfiles/file/63536905799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070af311be8d---40957430745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943115cbc23---jurodefevizibogavuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perlawarmii.pl/userfiles/file/60884141975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunnysidehighschoolclassof59.com/clients/867562/File/99678992333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavfelugyelet.megujuloenergiapark.hu/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bugak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rh-h1tapi-turbo.com/contents//files/tapalezakafobowuzow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shsclassof1959.com/clients/a/a7/a7a82b2a6025f7fafce5d77be70bf845/File/buzagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tajesink.com/Uploadfiles/files/fafurixisanoputinimogan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaimassagemodel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34191736828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=difference+between+food+chain+and+web+chainPDF 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_off00012310.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12310 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 688843bea8cf56d613825f3353856a7f57d0ecde26c0586f5198e4ffcaccc264
font_01_sfnt_off00013b39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B39 17732 bytes
SHA-256: 8555a25e06f9ff656dc3dbab1257595c0b80d0a445940dc2c67f2fe0aa8fd406
font_02_sfnt_off000169a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x169A1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1