Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f2112e5dd4327cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:47:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: bb72bd771c748b3eafcc88086d5566d5 SHA-1: ac0ff84a79eaebda7a469d924a2b8df808fb683e SHA-256: 8f2112e5dd4327cca83065cc720fe476a339b0828da63e22d217b34b0c5ac857
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the presence of multiple external URIs and compromised CMS upload links strongly supports the link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/bivuzubevasot.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2fb368ba77d5d2960461ac45466de82/zerikamagitorepavuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiredriver.com/uploads/assets/files/lizeviveve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cioccolatogallucci.it/userfiles/file/voradaxasilipelur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2e3e240226---fudurafabukelumimisumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d660aa3abd---69389958983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d14d6f31d5---11293540664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheumst.com/upload/fckeditor/file/10788002256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cableesmaltado.com/d/files/defupupap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antitumor.org/filespath/files/20210822085931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/38254843587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burragebrothers.com/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/92732667573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahha.az/userfiles/file/42886470500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiiga.ru/userfiles/file/madasuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.net/contents//files/tupizodojapusene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d406646d153b7cad24751014a12840c1/gizigatosivuzezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitaliaweb.it/upload/file/najasipeman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c551335a1dd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/nilasejafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.com/images/upload/File/73165341464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/urh9l14eoqrstofu9kom8kge7e/lokegejipibipilan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58b29ca33bca72565d618e9d1ff90b4d/82250323889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epiphanych.com/images/file/kasuketekipagapegukofel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=fractions+decimals+and+percents+worksheets+with+answers+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_off0000d0e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0E7 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 9e85f23bf2d699ac4d93b21ca6519a3476764f15f6ae3249d77ff425ee4d6fd3
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA73 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010285.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10285 18288 bytes
SHA-256: 3b6c3b3f8e91058c7f3ffa9d4e4eb0b03b9a333f147ad2d9faf7bb7bbae2e129