Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8353fdb254d524d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.7 KB Created: 2021-08-01 09:38:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: dc3788f8d16d8e4642ee11bf32b03416 SHA-1: 2602de10d4270b1ee171f2f7ec50562afa76adcd SHA-256: a8353fdb254d524dcd69f9da94cf82537ceaf378705b9bd15638de12c9db7a9d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm point towards an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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 http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082eb6cdc027---18372051143.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b249445baa9---pelafarilaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--299akc5b432k2sev7g.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210707_DA4CAD84F6B135DF.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csodamalom.hu/files/files/tikigamuvama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd6397b299---71385986095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f98eb7e49cc---kerimefutafevuzodabile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lanna-flyingclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/masididofakononez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://123podkrovie.sk/editor_uploads/files/xigiselowoguxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3alpknjqvjnp3kv7t251i1j3a/dumagotuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a113efb3659---41994212119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.almansori-ye.com/almansorifiles/files/vafuwojazonerez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4da0bda656cea788b693a064144e2bc/84180904395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jq0api6cm4u591kuqv9v38mb6j/58356772154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eb3365bd9d---xovuvogavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbaqfskngn1qi.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/xedikumimatiribalimofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098138be72fc---kakigekapusuwijapawitore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/kobuguxiteruzuzaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://candbco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xavavusudadasibamevajal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ebce177b55---60260081155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8b82edb345---savigelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panificioilcavaliere.it/userfiles/files/97857212548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a167d51ae0162d019ad31269ba74c4a9/81680669073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://papiratisk.cz/soubory/judikepamepuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://havadisname.com/upload/ckfinder/files/nubexozaputikidamis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itemclinicchina.com/ckupload/files/nolinevoraporojebasuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+ien+in+interrupt+cyclePDF 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_off0001312a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1312A 10560 bytes
SHA-256: e99902c79c30a221c585a67b9c33d18c2f44c4a862be383c8a40a48f6b41bd24
font_01_sfnt_off0001493f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1493F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016151.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16151 19104 bytes
SHA-256: fc1767c1b7c1385041a76a7418bf1858afbc575b518d5fb006fe7194c340133d