Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f3ef286ac9414cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 02:29:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 2a7046cb391b2792986cbf98874ee86c SHA-1: 92b55f768138b7fb59b108f7c343412364b907a4 SHA-256: 8f3ef286ac9414cd0d5615b918f8c6bd690608ab9b5ba9cd98a83e41b1118c7f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URIs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting domains. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery, which aligns with the 'Spearphishing Attachment' technique.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=x+sa+word+meaning PDF link annotation
    • http://zetrade.cz/userfiles/file/tiwusibuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c827342195---47856846254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e856f60a9eae7becc4634ecee1c7dd23/68006727091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca90b7e7cdb97597daacd55285cb07a8/96080466193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae37f43d5b7---36742728805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovth.ch/userfiles/files/57708904864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theheavent.com/userfiles/files/gonawozol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0rr6v3p0m6lm386bu2p7deghd/20417302336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d2279bfd6f---kakepanevaboxejug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a1d42160c138a67e6a904db257019d5/76434086633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbtele.com/en/cache/fck_files/file/lafizodab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e118de96b---lovobalifuruwuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/xinunidugojinadazevojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/62909323215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8e5953fc90---pakesopal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2eb1d1ef708cfd15eb12c1136769f22/kogelux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d95f0c2d8d98232b5f804ee7a1f65bf/12856812591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/nawobupiwijunalozusixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47c922301c5828d01520b84ada3bc54e/37575670976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leoclubmarsala.it/userfiles/files/fusejuguvotebanomaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adasms.fr/userfiles/file/45355271969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpn1971.org/clients/a/a2/a25689677492d603657f1241a2a69ea8/File/28352588623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0f3f54250a---31124371023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775a61288b0---40914981463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tangiahoang.com/skinkorea/Images_upload/files/10491792197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0001145b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1145B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012c72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C72 10540 bytes
SHA-256: bbb8811c7195acae011acde85ebb5cbbed184b394bd8be1945f97939d44b4308
font_02_sfnt_off00014440.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14440 17736 bytes
SHA-256: fe2f0fd67ac67775362543f505db5686fbdca3e5e2509e208ad1398314c2cac7