Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d5c2aa5fd576214…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.0 KB Created: 2021-08-14 01:25:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a8c1820e3a18e381c1ea66397c8a0b21 SHA-1: f2da5f0461c48d832cf896bf584ae46ef5332192 SHA-256: 8d5c2aa5fd57621411fd423a2b4ad31b1d3a3e9ab0d63d9fa0b5cd9332fc7633
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery through these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9872

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 https://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+th9+war+base+2020 PDF link annotation
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/nuwune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madiagranitosilano.it/userfiles/files/tinavenovofirumexojomolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769b29e00cc---31713598053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56bce4be2e7fd3bd0c3a73489f05354c/nuxiwagadas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/62621458294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decamiones.com/userfiles/file/repupawojasul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e42478f83---82876428990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d6b23e3291---81319960943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hokeypokeychallenge.com/clients/7/77/77ac66e313b6cb4bf602f1678accca72/File/segorimujinaxalofig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10aa667d94ebd83d5b5ae3fde6918eee/34492614161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tgtech-auto.com/userfiles/file/sufekidoduzoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchontherockuk.org/home/churchontherock1/public_html/userfiles/files/goletaped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phannhan.vn/files/usersfiles/files/wedezenezesinuzotenurabik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hinodanang.com/uploads/image/files/bonezegusatoxopiwowud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfalon.com/__files/file/74987865325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d659d0475---newowisebuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rybarict.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48205859573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160912e5bba815---27500586542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/647b60d455c093b976ccc8ef456224f6/fezasikokukamor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lhp5t0905977rftjhm6etmvdib/jemevolifosefimik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ef22a63184---bijoluseroziparabakuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnimeina.it/userfiles/files/foxoriloxefipovixar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/guperexosubokufaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/38762928790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/516a744bd6b9f345790bcb51c2597272/perini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://collegium-connect.nl/ckupload/files/71193890732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecumseh1962.com/clients/85183/File/16863111779.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_off00014062.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14062 19440 bytes
SHA-256: c87c0bb2609b5fa5506aa3bb04c0ad538243f8cb828574c2238f8d8ea7a0bb94
font_01_sfnt_off00017214.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17214 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 662f0407144078c0255b28a0cc0cc54af39b4207905b1a4fc89467be2a851fc8
font_02_sfnt_off00018a68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18A68 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1