Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8ab5153eaa5ea65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-08 19:18:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c12dcdbabe25d8d3914fd4e80b772d8d SHA-1: 3496862baa5f403e4cf653e5be36b96722c3b8a8 SHA-256: a8ab5153eaa5ea6584e900cffd347efb227051d88ef27da517b82600e43b7a5c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a spearphishing attachment used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://lpsa.cz/userfiles/file/wofatovedetoraxevu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vtdsbinhthuan.vn/public/uploads/userfiles/file/ruvujazuvijozavaliponiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovesenergy.com/file/gedanezezinuzuronogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artinterior.bg/userfiles/file/32554131528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cluboutletmoto.net/campannas/file/61472166531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaitosushisb.com/uploads/files/moromametikubeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parcroyale.hk/userfiles/50451567364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szkolaprzybranowo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zotadijifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7h6il4lof891nfh60duhjp45v1/26054884167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/banebilozazobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://co-mit.com/uploads/files/54362980995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaatlantida.com/userfiles/file///77111207804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khonggiansachhanoi.vn/uploads/files/doxunuzuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://codienlanhminhquang.com/upload/files/buwawinuxabelarowuduxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-elektrostal.ru/upload_picture/file/xevisusuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adverto.ee/userfiles/file/pamezuzoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peoplefineart.com/assets/202109/files/20210907231410594127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lq016io7gsnt35678tnjbtp225/8811699965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skene.es/userfiles/file/bapakomened.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pevak.info/UserFiles/File/wegixirixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloudinfo01.smartevolve.com/images/ckeditor/files/lozedesakilovebezapid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://horizonpestservices.com/userfile/15787590343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52ef02b8d61d174dd297e7de5d323427/97243806495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giltmorestukko.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91931409437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasvaripalmuzeum.hu/upload/file/3458410421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intproplaw.com/admin/uploads/file/koxafebuzumijunafunanel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=opsc+syllabus+2018-19+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000d710.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD710 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF22 17552 bytes
SHA-256: c2f747fa5296e4e994610630df6a68b44e1980e87fb1aaa96a28df1ce3e46bb9
font_02_sfnt_off00011c83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C83 11360 bytes
SHA-256: 2d4e0ba61fa48e6b4372a81c058dbfb82c1c8d83e7094d87bf746c44001c161e