Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8901a4f2418e691…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 06:32:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 62c64b6ea97512e3d0bbdd4a3c6af5c2 SHA-1: 3475fc3dfcb1ab7525eb9fa57868b610f1605979 SHA-256: a8901a4f2418e6916fd950bd8e2c2e522a53365c43fa1252083a0548b5bfb628
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9945

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+draw+one+punch+man+step+by+step PDF link annotation
    • https://dimensionshoppe.com/alpha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18398087972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17sjfmd1k42to34a30ud58c7v3/dovofovawifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamolenasnc.it/userfiles/files/nasutuzesejaxujuwus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b78pdbtsiaa9m5bs3inr9iqp70/jidinik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atek-ent.com/upload/file/ravugedutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f25722b790---wononolifazosemavapem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chaplains-camps.org/upload_picture/file/badiwabalenekemerijuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chauphongasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pagsto83i8c2qtp86nj65tq9oi/26315062738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lltsg.com/uploadfile/file///2021060303083827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eadc7145473187c679b257e4ab4f1d43/42176536340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meyergarden.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jigifalawonuvidoxamopow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v39p8k5daapn80eg90f1lvojoe/34442756547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b25af28f9c2---21732347980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ortechindustries.ca/ci/userfiles/files/zemudikesukotarusopakamej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crisismobile.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/geninopixogopetolapev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cavusofis.com/images_upload/files/42977049940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/wiwefabewexiwawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buckleyfamilyofdarling.net/clients/0/01/017bf228c8331327bdfb67b1798bff80/File/sezafexifoxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4reality.cz/userfiles/files/72573106555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33897d5c03bcba4c2311d1816eedfb08/ponimokuzasipibimufax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160749f724f5f0---jezezinoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/44695711128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagunarent.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99173538832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungvespaco.com/luutru/files/73409208606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lightofislamonair.org/uploads/files/vevupofaluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apra.pl/files/file/bafupejevuzolimilul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kppzp.pl/userfiles/file/bogebunar.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_off0000c75c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC75C 11072 bytes
SHA-256: 9a62c15b2ad8d81826ccffcd899ca32489a7987a5241113f5033c64c19b32bb8
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0C9 17124 bytes
SHA-256: f7d1c84f5867af591a12b8e106618eab32ad8b3f9d638fefb3e4c25ef90b3feb
font_02_sfnt_off00010d5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D5C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1