Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8130fba3799f14d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-07-08 05:11:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 124db0cc679e615b7a5ca241595ddf54 SHA-1: 4f24333cb1f6936934e4b9a5daca7b51c944826a SHA-256: a8130fba3799f14db5a9f42f799184b48652285f54fd2edace02c89031f3bf00
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple distinct hosts, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://apsons.eu/files/file/30582700423.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7qmf6n28aonk1tcl8vt88aihi1/didebanegalomogetoxubogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ad1a368fabae96550c9dbb1f137902f/mikowelewegawisirir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/asp1qr50od6klc3l1vco7pr7l0/gekipebafamadanivep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legend-chang.com/UserFiles/files/loxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc0cd4ee690---nuxojuvaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160779234c42b7---15926416722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u5tvh81kb1so58egu6ulhq52f3/28514915316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b07c9eef8---82300808954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsound.ro/images/custom/file/jivururufedagudimutixab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanboo.cn/Uploads/file/2021061503584570554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/16069888195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607820b8e9d10---kepokuxuname.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cbs-emballages.com/upload/file/kemulajikakalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eucolait.be/userfiles/files/bumufozodit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de28a495ff5---46850195568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arslanemlak.come/file/rutovekawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c71c1b8bb9---95167120770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rochesteradams75.com/clients/7/77/774a1ed2e17b5a3c8fe4214cc08eab78/File/nuxezolabedusufuxazolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bahtiyardishekimi.com/fckfiles/file/39938277723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/83161340472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160849c9a51d0f---tiwewetisakixododudugod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adimhukuk.com/resimler/files/88355912391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+read+pdfs+on+my+kindlePDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe3fe2f941746ad8eec5f691c488bfc6/46275908536.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_off0000f327.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF327 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B3E 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 42c266652ed814f500af4ddaaf87dd3030f67a071553fedb15c20eb29e780b25
font_02_sfnt_off0001243e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1243E 16764 bytes
SHA-256: cff7d6f8cf6e8c3debd2d37f72308289480f646a1c199c1ef9b67d943ddcf3dc