Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f41a0826f754a23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 05:01:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 77d982c032881cb111ddd7d9d39fa482 SHA-1: aa7ad0a23478b83f2ed84df0e19e0630d83a6c8d SHA-256: 8f41a0826f754a2362e56ae958eab98e006d09a95593850e19f00790959609b1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=atoms+heavier+than+helium+were+made+by PDF link annotation
    • http://labcoop-jsc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6q5qeh87m1u4uncbj803t2u5jp/65946019917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f08d38934472f1ff886bd1da827f2fad/rixefizaruluju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64664f86ba7b63cc9dad3f2a3b2b1d6c/buzanofaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://disonde.com/filespath/files/20210814080545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcleod-bobbitt.com/clients/64742/File/vuwaziba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/045cd5c4653079b6d66138bee96dfa08/53743732445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3amdbuke82ii8ubrrp7k61qprg/64115863421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1f9139c009---jefiwisakufirafagasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160763764eef36---jotovenivibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seanmore.com/userData/board/file/38842991477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hglobaltourb2c.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210731_F24EB5427A10CDD3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartgallery.com/clientMedia/file/81745352711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0c06ca17b9---46967309378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jaegeraviation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sudutese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodykneadstherapy.com.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39594890481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kentacademymiango.com/userfiles/file/24558429462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8v7kqv3bvhei0mvfdpkc0bl1a/49667643729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yesilkoyluleriz.biz/resimler/files/55392958765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/70179144526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamslakeband.org/userfiles/file/wolawakuduxuvebipul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geotersrl.it/file/goteputimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studionegro.net/userfiles/files/33225836252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfa3f896f33---betasemekofax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nonstopsushi.com/uploads/files/pizufepoxetujo.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_off0000e378.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE378 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB8A 18404 bytes
SHA-256: ad934bddc0511c88a7271af9e19df1deb012c2c581f79198033633ccf0ce58ff
font_02_sfnt_off00012bb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BB8 11000 bytes
SHA-256: e14a8d6144a4b6c74168f2a12cfb5e76a5dd920ed957109d86f55fd22c658d52