Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f02409ddc9570b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 03:20:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2b024ca6756ac33c2b26800f5c16dafd SHA-1: 5d66343c681db9b66195edc6296fc9bdfe466f3c SHA-256: 8f02409ddc9570b88948a9d50a09680f48e2bba2ab83452d5c8b62473c8af5fd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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 http://szkolka-wiercioch.pl/files/file/51822649119.pdf
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b841f75e6d7---vadavow.pdf
    • https://szekszardportal.hu/userfiles/file/5313770107.pdf
    • http://sequirk.ie/userfiles/file/xosefifaxurarug.pdf
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/egf45b1i0ui1catkkp60m6pm60/69098163011.pdf
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/suu87afsi98hqp6rsstr38qs51/kivurenebuno.pdf
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160986ff51c0b3---xufuzap.pdf
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160793cceeb0c0---61895673096.pdf
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a50a9371a06---88741359845.pdf
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609466f775b67---7226596669.pdf
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abekhorsln3u2l8t0mg0p2gv01/vizix.pdf
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4a0bd6d5dec7fbd2839fc618be04246/36871655885.pdf
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/30455337273.pdf
    • https://tangentemag.com/img/file/70254638171.pdf
    • https://afayl.com/userfiles/file/fotimopibigotajer.pdf
    • http://richardarnoldalumni.com/clients/a/ad/ad1dcfa6f69ac51e3fe6bec18f6cf6d6/File/50119381745.pdf
    • http://caythuocdangian.net/images/files/muzexikadaworafosokez.pdf
    • https://medicentrumnz.eu/medicentrum/files/file/42209947319.pdf
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87097e79deff4d9b3cc4ae0b8a63a72c/munidemuxafokerom.pdf
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6eb9ee6a43c92e746e97d6c7e5af459e/mupanawumifenokox.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=funding+your+education+concordia
    • http://medlab.webd.pl/upload/file/10414647991.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_off0001079f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1079F 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011fb6.bin
e35f48979bc5d1af7a78c5d75b2c6f671b8ebd403a8b5d9ca7d3461e00072a6f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FB6 10520 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013791.bin
d5f9d554f728316259cfc5098dc88e5a914a979fefac799b652ab17feaa41794
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13791 17884 bytes