Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8dcbfc00aaa3aba8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-07-05 22:08:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b96cbdef5f2a86074c26b5bb4cb26640 SHA-1: 3fb28dd028da977f68bbffb781cbae8703fca0b0 SHA-256: 8dcbfc00aaa3aba82705aa4da663d86a152b0aedc766d3a773700fa2647287eb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan by ClamAV. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or submitting sensitive information. The presence of external URIs and link farms on disposable hosting suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 https://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=deep+laceration+wound+care
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/puhu8lo6pucannvcu67u7hqqmh/26403277846.pdf
    • http://1-cx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/feruseferaxar.pdf
    • http://hungbuloon.com/media/ftp/file/99326440213.pdf
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/mokirokudexabu.pdf
    • https://jordanadams.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/judafasudubonoja.pdf
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0e1529ae23657dca3909bc0b3b1f593/xasisudadidetosarirasi.pdf
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a7cb86adf4---67732028425.pdf
    • http://cfacgroup.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/84757195855.pdf
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720f9b07bc0---safodanujujak.pdf
    • http://cnzhongkui.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/uploads/file/212353108674.pdf
    • http://lideparts.com/userfiles/file/1624797697.pdf
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfhbip11qqar4b14n0evsh6sn2/wepiwugulovepede.pdf
    • https://stiff.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tewesowurupupole.pdf
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bee24f76f75---55056361607.pdf
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf3304f022a---rarulokomukuxufuva.pdf
    • http://helder-effect.nl/userfiles/file/40628032958.pdf
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08dsssg8s5cd52tpn7kojtnhv3/sukudasuvudaroxu.pdf
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c07299c5e8c---noxodokazigoxorobotewo.pdf
    • http://hamdard.com/hamdard/app/webroot/img/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10486449713.pdf
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607506ae288e0---bipazugiz.pdf
    • https://casabresciani.it/uploads/file/zajerisewelenadafoti.pdf
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pmuctnk72mf6hss0icfdr2noo5/riwawo.pdf
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eaa5dc389b---46710837493.pdf
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d64a5334178---61177006673.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ff26.bin
67ba440141ed42c9b2f175a72d67ec4e37f3318b5bae937bab55d33db7e5005d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF26 10528 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011746.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11746 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012f58.bin
51a7903d66103dde48b5d32efb3d411d684fd0fa1fad0a9535601c480661c9f8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F58 17344 bytes