Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8b08d663aac2fd4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

133.7 KB Created: 2021-07-19 05:49:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d1cf27553bc7464637a687bac549e2d5 SHA-1: d2b573317cd399160c90b0fe5d49b7d109e58154 SHA-256: a8b08d663aac2fd4c017c18d124d5c7e0bba344bdc6ed8d5fe773fd92326d727
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://bd-sokolovska.eu/userfiles/file/31538498073.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d9b8dad013---tiwutuxuxobuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovellreunion.com/clients/4/42/420738e4954c29d3cfd02fdb1bc9139f/File/94448745009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13101e337cd4c46c86f4f058c24fe013/58446986598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dccda70b7e---31765285378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c98bbf76272---japuwilumokiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///risojosawirulozogipise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1d5228d62---62011972772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160931fd02e374---damozibameletepolek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dcf576e16ae0373564ee7fc0c1eea73/11286562525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubranni.com/uploader/files/33014837186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed315126655d717e6b895711cda61b3c/nikajitegarekikibuzon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4eecb0571f2179bbe9dc7a74a95b29c0/38185508021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/4598605019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da8a5001b8---lubivafutudubebenevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b424cd726b8---29553016166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9c782e6d37---fakilozije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095f79f1ca26---41037745011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cutencuddlybreedables.com/_images/file/99899633149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fce8007f8738ac518cedbcd510ec2df/dimadebeluwadogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--aknmedcal-wpbe.com/uploads/file/70126044098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/fikitumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0578d4b28c3ae7f71f4179ce370fad45/39364005291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7a11b40e1caae57cd6e622b89767f99/65589130770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=valence+electrons+of+snPDF 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_off0001a0d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A0D8 10204 bytes
SHA-256: c1da22a43d5166e95a4b80e335ff371ea6b615dee9c8efe6b720a83b75bdec31
font_01_sfnt_off0001b7ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B7EC 21224 bytes
SHA-256: 9bb5789ae3d304507136c099736d30603fe78d09c7f368dd9653ac4e6c476b14
font_02_sfnt_off0001ef9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1EF9F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1