Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8dfb62a144265c7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-10-01 07:51:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: d5419f06383b252ec94ed2d44d8d3cfb SHA-1: d124461e56d0a734b6a6e73dcec72a1d5c2a773a SHA-256: 8dfb62a144265c7c9933ad2236e3f8f32cd78185143cebc7408890beee1cde8c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was identified as malicious by a ML classifier and ClamAV, detecting it as a phishing trojan. Static analysis revealed it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites. Some of these URLs are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a potential distribution point for malicious content or phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://annabarons.lv/files/files/gatup.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aldurra.ly/images-editeur/img/file/47044953457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swaminarayangm.org/userfiles/file/51803852883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b154d3fc01e731e7d76b7b73954fd8e/88627745966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oncallanatomist.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuvoberazonatanazinuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0985028898.kad.tw/kads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20628527682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newo.ru/files/files/lipusonulipimoritadeped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meskerjager.nl/media/files/68924746084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teamwork-poetschke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54871486398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dimensioninteractive.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/mujujerobosad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://durimawar.com/contents/files/jopavatel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daeryuhealthcare.com/ckupload/files/40853151075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaziemirkentkonseyi.com/upload/files/65154610423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eg-connect.com/php_codes/Scott/VieauAssociates/code/userfiles/file/13470559265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o6s991pkpe7ma474mttpr6p0k0/73903675369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-eu.cz/upload/files/71423983076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energcomb.net/cms_enercomb/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/5052105180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132b3dec8ec4---mosexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.florentmaussion.net/userfiles/File/zawujisadobuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dla-pracownika.pl/pliki_user/File/jinowogezanoboto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaness-sens.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuvelazuxuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=cloth+remover+app+2020PDF 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_off0000b321.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB321 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 8763833d9c978be8e07bceadaeefb1a3150217c2d45e7369ff06732dedec32bb
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB1F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e331.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE331 17012 bytes
SHA-256: 1fbf1bc13799af71796bee3ecbdd40a9498ede0e09dd11a96077b7c85ec6e374