Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8dcaf982a094686f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 10:58:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 6adc760c1e558de25a89c436ffe3c69e SHA-1: 87667571d67eca31f3c0f122e1d8b77c3b1431bd SHA-256: 8dcaf982a094686fd48c91b32da96861494063b903d4b5ab19557623e618d5ea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to various websites, including those hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=babylonian+numerals+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://hiredriver.com/uploads/assets/files/9283864576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user///file/_0598797001621477873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bbbc19e970---kovigoterupizosogogut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edwindijk.nl/home/edijk/domains/edwindijk.nl/public_html/uploads/file/rosanijugigipidowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgpeo.pl/users/file/jejugebemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungnguyenjsc.vn/uploads/image/files/12290183096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64a978aec4a987caecf949d264d08e93/98384706583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizbecho.com/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/50508905313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elnativocoffee.com/silver/upload/files/lenuwexaxedobiteteluru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabortech.com/admin/file/nojavagogidowuniwip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhoffordphotography.com/temp/files/file/vazub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkkpcm.org/userfiles/xokixati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teknis.it/userfiles/files/wogumetitarimedubuxodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s9nvd1dtg0r3gguq8gq6ssskv2/noxatofikobalafatuxovotip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qe9csb30hm8scbdhkac28g00l6/majel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085bdc94cefc---93268971319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdemlerkoleji.com/resimler/files/63797820251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solucionaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47723836642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ouhkpthaa.org/userfiles/79392214406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae9901377a0---zosugaman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playindiano1.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55479792829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/716d42c4049b52614e5744ea1bb90bcc/92660694757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/lutaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aglogistics-bo.net/userfiles/file/wufujalojotivosenu.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_off0000dead.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEAD 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 7c1d677d30650037550a3b03c96a453ba48de8e74823fc49b594adc843877575
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010ffa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FFA 19184 bytes
SHA-256: fe28c16d01f337f61d4d8b48ffaa813cf06ab4830d7f11c75baaca91cde8b635

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