Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8faf6d7e15dbbc78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-11 00:47:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 5b0f5a78981bdbf31202edb2a12ecc9d SHA-1: a85281bcb4a9dbed2c6f6e5d9d6fdc6926e58f9a SHA-256: 8faf6d7e15dbbc784d0909a1a4f7c36345c381c976b3a080d805486c1c6a6e27
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to external, potentially malicious, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+take+care+of+your+smartphone PDF link annotation
    • http://torby.kbo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58899973160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b42b3a0e1cb7b4567d43a3ed510cad0c/siwij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chemonova.com/FCKeditor/file/diwodasuxesujana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parilka.by/var/upload/file/fominupasajojinabidugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://all-stage-meditation.tw/uploads/files/61330184125cf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a48ed75e42---wogibepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://permanentnimakeup-brno.cz/userfiles/files/feganule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityfate.com/files/files/jenaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgbig.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-9/20210909235022540741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tdvvietnam.vn/webroot/img/files/ketisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecksco.com/upload/files/16992293925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.net/data/cms/file/wavotuxudejogub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5a6755bcfcc8481eaef1449935df740/ziwever.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltes.tw-goods.com/UserFiles/files/76791432808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wct.goldcrownresort.com/magazine_files/files/sowozojoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocw.tw/uploads/files/katijazufoxowuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanshapes.in/userfiles/file/butijulefajekoveda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liftsystems.ro/LiftFiles/file/64177758200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kccmaul.com/files/files/gakojixisusanipukumebiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vlaamspatientenplatform.be/_plugin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/naxazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canavesiobruno-architetti.it/userfiles/files/85564032584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermogroup.ru/uploads/files/89946637323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiendanatacion.com/noticias/files/sutivepadepojixujavem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161372c89f2fa3---toxavi.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_off0000d10d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD10D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e91f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE91F 17704 bytes
SHA-256: e11da5ab53be7e2c9b7073a0b0d090c536f5a645ce5f3fba21dbfe0422b611b4
font_02_sfnt_off00011744.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11744 10988 bytes
SHA-256: 67f8efd7be574986e0a4d3b544c9e19945511c04e5ab606372405ca4b8af8bcc