Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8b8f284a959e602…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 18:37:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: aec4bfe4de48b5d59b8631e7dcd03218 SHA-1: 78cbc48057075000eb7567511c5a42a8bf79ae12 SHA-256: a8b8f284a959e602f34b5fe0113a0be478fc9bdfd69eb23b47a62d56648750f2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The primary attack pattern involves exploiting user trust through a malicious document to lead them to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210801110542_904966343.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.icareonline.net.au/ckfinder/icare/files/59530310907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d3c72f404d---fobubemenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c525ba42b---fijivevesipisofodube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b55f7f336be0683738f442240db6923b/24939767374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac89571f97df5297d6bf8f3f0504e297/11216013878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.weboonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64152504505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://margheritango.it/userfiles/file/64192374899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmoxx.mn/userfiles/files/32717563679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jikaramen.com/uploads/files/waluboniduna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c6bc34a723fa847b65ed1f6f46efc22/javajigitaxuzuwirudomezus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drinkpoint.com/uploads/files/mebikejamavixusag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chroscina.com/userfiles/file/84689136449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coonvalleycc.com/userfiles/file/31131077370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/pebuvumulofimivifefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3rg1591vmlte9e8h28devhmrk6/53243381005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b296fb2f022---86929765357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tradeweb.es/userfiles/file/rodoxasivutofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da82ec74ca755cb176b86202e3acf651/milogitelajojalidadesaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boekenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/timirubirotidenimor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e70271eaf2a3b97a1091da8b7d8da359/14531288360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c24001d3ae39e1800fa00b7ad8f9645/37444323599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.net/sites/default/files/file/nazolewapaxojovefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb9b7fa835a---96589177432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://araonline.hu/uploads/file/kepuwogadazedimuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=functional+departmentalization+pdfPDF 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_off0000d365.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD365 16104 bytes
SHA-256: 861bee402aefc849356330335be7e5b6ed8a5a0384ba7d691cd3f705644eab98
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCDB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000114f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114F2 10752 bytes
SHA-256: c7563f7edf9f974adff7456978ab22a0e612cfdf6a0e70257839456b4a447625