Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8daca6fc7c9fd516…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-30 12:35:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 20e9048e4d9a00d6b0684da698f11d57 SHA-1: efcfbae9a17a023ebf832ff75d82a09ed68a409f SHA-256: 8daca6fc7c9fd516634cbe2b7b196493b52dda9deaab860d636e8328e2d1ffde
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage. The primary goal appears to be directing users to potentially malicious or phishing content hosted on these external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9893

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 http://brickform.cz/obrazky/files/jetuzapikup.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://knurussian.kr/DATA/upload/files/202109011136349648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.htlexpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kibajeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://exclusivelimoservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/belobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sparan-art.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luraxukezanukovujukigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144cf70b3b6c---6319185664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accapierre.it/userfiles/files/2308267130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161463852aedc4---38667862567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83vk7separi5u95qbip7cs6c61/ferelafukiroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenld.com/userfiles/ditowokizero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16150fd9703808---monuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbev0bhje.xn--p1ai/images/news/file/bidilikulanokibaxubawoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brihat-group.com/assets/userfiles/files/34715305568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimyasaldubeller.com/upload/ckfinder/files/fidadejimeforepomotuzefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quasar.mago.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dofusanagirawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-newsletter.com/ckupload/files/zizexenogogel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hkha.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69842934195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekstelekom.com/userfiles/file/xifizom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertoantoniz.com/resources/original/file/tuvokamamumuxupovoruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b250e0101f---78291722589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/283dea5a3e35e1a7c25c99667029c8da/60243094371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-sincere.com/upfiles/editor/files/82243812094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cerel.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/pipubewubefepuwilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ktcz.eu/files/files/89622092977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archinfo.ru/uploads/file/2742835103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zechnerbau.at/images/content/files/vumokibakofupiribazup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=ghotki+driving+licencePDF 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_off0000b2e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2E6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cafd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAFD 10516 bytes
SHA-256: d07734dcbe0799798c03dacd19454b7dfec86b944f4b497392eb584bcfdccf25
font_02_sfnt_off0000e2ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2AD 15924 bytes
SHA-256: d96a3675f14fc54f7a8587c00da68964fc311ea1ff9320284943b72fd6c7c093