Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8d0327b40f8f519…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.4 KB Created: 2021-09-24 16:36:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8f50cfa49305f51960e4ff2a4b80a197 SHA-1: 721c6b4606f3f8cc82eb78aad627977ad6012cf7 SHA-256: a8d0327b40f8f51969a4dcb359bcb73f6996bad5151631fe2dff1c4df8ae7711
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 external sites. Several heuristics indicate that this PDF functions as a link farm, with some links hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://lwim-ouargla.dz/ar/files/42706328073.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--h1acbpobggs.xn--p1ai/data/files/15628856393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebeccafantarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/rujiribesawiwezalas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anaja-inter.org/public/file/befiteraxidikosenudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.omt.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/281605083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafmoni2biho.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79902679921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turdv.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/95979065997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izumrud38.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/riwivonasabapixagalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signauction.net/userfiles/file/61748773979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130145392c70---41733705977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deep2001.com/images/library/File/68998132355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familiegravesen.dk/userfiles/file/xasajizibidudemoraxilakiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinarwaja.com/account/files/84956261816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profstil.az/userfiles/file/47065884169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a795d4008d---41695497247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efuturesthai.com/uploads/file/98384944671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/jipurodisazotasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user//file/_0773684001631475433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freetds.net/userfiles/file/kovobojil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614bb96b7e9ed---rikikonebetibeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ijdssymposium.eu/upload/83558715461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonaparte.cappencms.com/templates/files/2627125884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=video+wallpaper+for+mobilePDF 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_off0000ace4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xACE4 10484 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a204bfe1b83a19d01bcd930f1d22b27a3a9592e69758d5f6b2d323516319
font_01_sfnt_off0000c478.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC478 14384 bytes
SHA-256: 9d569eff1b1c1ff3636c48ecff5d2682d6c5a37bc78372ba6d5b55f5d4aa12bb
font_02_sfnt_off0000e843.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE843 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1