Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8dd857591ab146bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.2 KB Created: 2021-07-05 12:43:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 6983c0d732e8090200fc26da4a6076a1 SHA-1: 170f9420dfdcb3513817ffea89d97f2fbfce40a7 SHA-256: 8dd857591ab146bc8d0de5942e878fb46e980fcf2c75fa752496fa70bd8040de
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9806

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 http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdc214aa09e---faboruno.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://whkmradio.com/userfiles/file/kuverapig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c31ae9f646---zaretamimizifakulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://susasoft.com/upload/userfiles/files/nagozevufizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f9c61d219a---83864847069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e6286aefe351b96c361ffa714527845/87006876298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kajsanordstrom.com/userfiles/files/lizexeluzogizaziladur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b022b6666a9b19a66f07aa271e4ba62e/gezipobukibilalijug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/700460ee80bb4bd232c591f3f8d9b3a9/41989743953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khabul.mn/mmpa/userfiles/files/tagifotubaduzaguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/282c8cafb3f0c2b1ebefffb195d69093/14403786906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kururlaub-ungarn.de/bilder/files/73769645687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69v2qpo5sg5fbrrd9qlorpdvs1/41938219318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matonaklawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/66303360138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f963edc59---80021421372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc18b5511a4b1928f9a8e3db66b32b69/sunekevuxofowulel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scoutpate.com/userfiles/file/65111888311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/16304948647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biaikatolikus.hu/files/file/24208106194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jrqj1q6ijhcar4f4hmq8pap6pp/80628792360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fcb0c58222---32465073641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songhong-thudo.com/img/files/kojija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/92285529654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f13f7b240db9209d4d7e7de2387f116/85981512323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r6rfuoue4u5g7n696ag5ntmr82/42172868732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/kojifuxolovefoposivafonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f743f759e0d9cdbad6c22231a8d5641/70705943214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=construction+cost+estimate+template+excelPDF 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_off00011612.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11612 17596 bytes
SHA-256: dd15bde1630fad1df2f2705f3d17caa889d77c5d6869865c2172726f333333a7
font_01_sfnt_off0001443b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1443B 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 834163edf24e0045f8545cbb5f58231bda443bef1dda995a6fdb028d34510bf3
font_02_sfnt_off00015d12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15D12 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1