Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f2cdab05581c256…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 03:27:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 43d5408126737777e2281c449722866f SHA-1: 9c4b6fec1ff9f7c781475e5486fa9686d611616b SHA-256: 8f2cdab05581c2566986739ffd47865e6da1275f5f373c9ba6e11b6624cef4e4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to other PDF files hosted on compromised websites. This suggests a multi-stage attack designed to distribute further malware or lead users to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nu8e34613g68fvpnbbobmu4l33/50871230684.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://partner-support.net/user_data/userfiles/files/66199915777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniroll.pl/user_images/file/nabadaposu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/simegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81rgo7kjbkpip574d7heegtac1/rudubisojekimexakozawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.com/slicice/file/gamapokawosiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://border-inn.com/CKEdit/upload/files/liligabesukaxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghinelliarchitettura.it/userfiles/files/kosevisubemedalun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diegogenna.it/userfiles/files/gezojuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9eaa2de3eb46ba9e8a44bb1aab2bc43e/rimologutixabusivolifuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizugy.hu/uploads/files/36592115416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/67863225516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyosungulf.com/uploads/file/62247055137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pi-consulting.ch/download/93007494137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefarmatarapahoecounty.com/userimages/xorazurinaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160977b24be21d---gudifedujisetidubejot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agentcctv.com/userfiles/file/50309874660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selispin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/54755484852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestaerospace.com/uploads/file/fusixepanutuviponulirojub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.se/upload/laxutidofesikafofiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd95a7d6024d1b4f2a4a7de0dd5a19d6/fibowafeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fenixfalt.com/userfiles/file/fusamalowumefidulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westernmaki.com/uploads/files/6782164267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e3b02ffb8---fadajoxorisenako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58955fjpicl4d88ecfrr7jme36/82039600536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=word+association+activities+worksheets+freePDF 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_off0000ce63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE63 10764 bytes
SHA-256: 7b9f942b05c0a3c02e7f4453309a7d326e46cefb96764db0604f7a70c7191de0
font_01_sfnt_off0000e72b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE72B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF3D 17796 bytes
SHA-256: 0e0e6bc7d4d8c0f6f3010c660e41dc23387b30385ae44f2c838c1b40b65379fc