Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8fafe1898f66b4a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-10 22:43:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 779c456fb5087bc8724a94fb9a6a27c1 SHA-1: fef206247f625fe69db7da98b79c91f393cb2838 SHA-256: 8fafe1898f66b4a4b48be294b86407d59ae45b826c36c35e68c2e0de113ca250
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of 'utm_term_redirector=True' suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or disguise the true destination of the links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=watch+just+tattoo+of+us+season+5+online+free PDF link annotation
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n6he5e9h6to2cur4gidt263nq4/zikexik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vroa.pl/chplusfiles/file/fevuwifudokuzudafafub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topimmigrationlawyer.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32260130238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baove24h.info/upload/files/navatiwiwinudogibosur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gearonlaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kitonajigasubilimal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exdebt.bg/userfiles/file/lukexagekopowus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131af26678b6---toxigotuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duvarkagidierzincan.com/userfiles/file/jitekegazetazigud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/nudarexepogitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137c5e99ec02---turexuxonawukavuwuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gpkoaee.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54729023085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guerrazzi.info/userfiles/files/38905376516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sergeca.com.ve/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79654505257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b41e5c452b---93803418713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksnjl.com/userfiles/files/batelar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avukat.dnsaktif.net/upload/files/14677106498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/95165761446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikomsolutions.com/admin/userfiles/file/munutabivomopavekarunow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yenidenyuzlendirme.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12620579659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://master-vin.ru/files/file/garugenojafabipurilurez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lensmam.com/userfiles/file/dobolarigoziruvika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-recepty.sk/images/fotky/favofotakalamibasumazuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shen-su.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/74169376487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatravel.com/userfiles/file/21241140744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratoempat.com/contents/files/85429795173.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_off0000e1d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9EA 18172 bytes
SHA-256: 1657327a0e307135adfb619e7d0fbc276ba6aaecd1a8aaba98f6c2e35104d4ae
font_02_sfnt_off00012945.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12945 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 5fc07ffeb4674addf6f318d18c5e677eefa7de422c43fbbddb44d601a625e261