Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f4ddf42eb10f3c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-08-08 08:08:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: cc3ae135247f58df0b7c0ead6ac73eae SHA-1: d5c66d50d0ece06502b13ffcd31f668ce3b87fd8 SHA-256: 8f4ddf42eb10f3c2a0215da3e7a691d8c2b671728cc79efbeb7ee693a6907d0d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The primary function appears to be directing users to external, potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://airshow-bg.com/file/linazolos.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kangs78.com/clients/66216/File/torimogebij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimbuunguyen.com/uploads/userfiles/file/bitubep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8c10e3bed---98051410632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cshfga396cgejdk61ba6a15j73/65822880766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ugyvednok.hu/userfiles/file/punewepitajeposab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taevlingar.se/images/pages/file/51258209612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hugslock.com/app/webroot/img/files/befovufimarit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4ab703d101d56d4a8ec7bdef58b25d5/vewopumexetenuxuxibukop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dorfadvertising.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guwisevigatetezese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d056053c4e---78943478381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polnische-zaune.de/userfiles/file/47233301765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murzilka.biz/images/uploads/file/dixolifivoroxanowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uir7uhba2bn853p1bbnttdrgng/muzofetalojamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.supremecaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nekaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b24d9bd793735db167007d93efdae7c/feluserizonexofawuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klcmekatronik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xojesibukevuwudovavuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073937ac1c98---48944269610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.net/sites/default/files/file/195004182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dedanskecasinoer.dk/userfiles/file/toladeborulojutox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2mmlf51515n872sihad6t4m4ah/16275796265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.ru/files/file/23227826880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784b28c2d22---39792418789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigxra.com/uploadfile/file/2021061516124073499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbianninh188.com/uploads/files/59551657142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgqq.hk/tony/churchofgod/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28021459049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=3+phase+controlled+rectifier+pptPDF 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_off0000dd05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD05 19204 bytes
SHA-256: 6772920753d8b149c101de23cd6d36ea07accdd17e6ce47d3cdc14d0107e0321
font_01_sfnt_off00010e5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E5D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012674.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12674 10792 bytes
SHA-256: f007de330bf14bf2603d2dd48096829128ee9809917203c87fda336ecc2a08bf