Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8de3fd8b56eda53a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 13:44:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 186178fdade22a33fab9a515c801b68d SHA-1: dc70d6220d87229ba27d3958b7eafab0ce41edd6 SHA-256: 8de3fd8b56eda53afd56c2517563c192e2819beef0f9e87dae6da7aa8b58cd34
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, likely intended to host malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to these compromised sites to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607690c427e5e---78617386745.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/zusukaxugiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogiovannone.com/userfiles/files/puduxiril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushi-belovo.ru/files/14737233059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medwin.kr/userData/board/file/61584293661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd36fb1ec0---mezaxebakak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d4squebec.com/clients/f/f5/f58105ca183540932673f5bf18e62671/File/risumubepovuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoangnhataudio.vn/media/files/75109681993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2c339ab0f33c57fa3207368a7a6b5bf/62985976405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e716663d4cc64cfc7ccca54da0df7617/10533474104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b74a9b55e3---tikukosogix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d56a96040fb---mimotajugod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dock-levellers.com/upload/files/zozuxazasififomezepunobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svarovanijelinek.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gabej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dakeliralikefariwolag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/nowarefosogil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimecostruzioni.it/userfiles/files/womaxalinuvifovixabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa4f3ce2b78---46683604470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4de858fe04dbc9e233f02521edc0a1fd/99406994392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbu.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/goterumuduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=browns+schedule+2018+pdfPDF 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_off0000f39d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF39D 11108 bytes
SHA-256: 559beefb85ff24b8ee5142732c6e87f667beadcb003677fb8ed48ba5247d645d
font_01_sfnt_off00010d93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D93 18424 bytes
SHA-256: 8b937382702f2b8622ea5c580b88977174bcaaf2a31407e4670f2e2a3e237f35
font_02_sfnt_off00013dbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DBD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1