Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8397b7f6fe713d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-09-14 12:18:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 22e34c3b0aaea1221adc6c4918209beb SHA-1: c5cd236a0b58219a93affaf423640de742f7c597 SHA-256: a8397b7f6fe713d18a1183c5f79176f2420be414f2867b191471fae71a316e8b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or link farm strategy. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host and distribute these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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=online+perfect+piano+keyboard PDF link annotation
    • https://nulifeus.com/~nulife/userfiles/file/92224406338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613eae2503fb0---zurolepofoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinyoungvalve.com/userData/board/file/72468110440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prvugkh.ru/uploads/files/77115569668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-odincovo.ru/upload_picture/file/kesavuwuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dd9fa27768---57403281581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intrinhgia.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/87329998329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estudiowebcolombia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46691141516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myvideoclasses.com/ci/userfiles/files/vesuvezovuxorosotaxoxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dkmodels.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kewutifawosakomirasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalpolicycouncil.com/imagenes/file/72019098714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimumnieruchomosci.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/zematikerorolifaliduzovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swancentive.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21263374498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-zheleznodorozhnyi.ru/upload_picture/file/livase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mvpbuilding.com/userfiles/file/jogajijemagamamozarurego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapsalonvogue.nl/files/file/vuwelod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137d272aea0d---83398200353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rockeit.com/userfiles/file/wixomojepexugokezagize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nrgmedia.hu/files/file/nopunuzupejexitubese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domingo.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gatuwitisexovemidetusibir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiermyanmar.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/godawetedefitobadun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rivieresoceanie.com/userfiles/file/pijidinexeravopefase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jurabos.nl/include/editor/file/87056147586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottomaniantextile.com/userfiles/file/72704453089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.serge-valentin.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/watime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioguidobarbieri.it/userfiles/files/napofojudajipa.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_off0000f326.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF326 18448 bytes
SHA-256: 7d8e57ef54f7a4449327732d486535d287e3b77496ba0b83c7ab56ecaeb0944b
font_01_sfnt_off000122eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013b02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B02 10816 bytes
SHA-256: afb7db2310b75c8b4a76dac322512669e04715fff6e4626a66dd0723f9070daf