Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8da835fdf6f7835a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 20:31:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 0cb73e4a60e6acdabd2dcae3bfc52ed1 SHA-1: 401956b8b22bbb36f5b4f0ec6edd3f994ddd1d5b SHA-256: 8da835fdf6f7835a73e2aa6f81bf02a40a665b4fce4084cc21c1d7d3d1bfd873
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=google+android+emulator+for+windows+7 PDF link annotation
    • https://gifarlcm.com/upfiles/editor/files/80158531967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31f938da2259217b6d6f813b28836fd1/feziwopuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzzxtl.com/UploadFile/file/20210905031130955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stayinbranson.com/ckfinder/triplebuserfiles/file/15142702329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bluewhaleline.com/image/upload/File/38645981118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog/file/ladegulawafekosifitekalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cet.sk/res/file/pozozidawevenutinemosugaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medwin.kr/userData/board/file/28368712873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://owop.challengersports.com/userfiles/files/sodalakivukemoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://booking-news.hkdnracing.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/nopifugixebirofotezaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolorenzino.eu/userfiles/files/71109577511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hosvagyok.hu/userfiles/file/wogikif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sirinthepgroup.com/userfiles/file/18340360929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24536da5ed1d374f193ccc47e8f609da/parodiburomesirobegodiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbpkrosno.com/fckfile/gizivedanidukalomoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wildarium.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33729055877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.park-seversk.ru/other/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bewoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613829c2b5a2d---81117057661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evevoyance.fr/adh/.-/file/54650040649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gearonlaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/31624729898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiumevivo.it/userfiles/files/90363910298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recrute.fr/files/files/85004772827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuanayapim.com/rsm/files/bawijiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/614a787a7c3ae890c007dd97467beac2/18331292003.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_off0000ea1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA1A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010231.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10231 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 2779a29095792ad757380b88981cc49a2b394f92e5c4f40844f446dda8e340e9
font_02_sfnt_off00011b96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B96 18440 bytes
SHA-256: 4d774ae30d99bb64149416a4876951b5af6b1ee44563f9d0ab0eff283397a618