Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8d128b56c579d8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-06-25 22:13:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a3c45a0882985b6e8f3f3247d2b42a5b SHA-1: dc23a24cc03d3542f84f9af0449e0a4773b9e980 SHA-256: a8d128b56c579d8e227df5ceeb9c5db02bf93da7a59d20453b0386f8c202a443
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, with many pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns suggest an attempt to lure users to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74172e4dd4beeb347dda3ec02d7703f3/jukeratawagizat.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stroisvias.ru/userfiles/file/duzanodutizetex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bleikss.com/userfiles/file/nozuzuvejavakasas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerd-pollak.de/userfiles/file/panadaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6uu11k0o55l26rqp91oco5o2l9/vexitazusalutox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eogqvplrukmnr5qnc6cj5q1867/vijarexawubutufigejigorum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3b3ed6f657---91783352124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c71c02c7960---10129381184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a234a6c284dbfef76e6db77fc4f273ec/5170807033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://araonline.hu/uploads/file/71565869379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pgnsualumni.com/clients/872691/File/logeris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exosportsante.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19124447864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee59beedfbfb33a98bfb154afe9705de/90143977853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8ff489ba94---83631375949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813d4d35388---62482608302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813bc59cbd2---vewubavopobafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbea3935dff34ef1c997c5201cd0b356/zilefazesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160736e01e453a---telagetumetatumawefovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d81a2a1hnkrs1gu3lpr7e2f3qm/fididonemigabukanos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1970fchs50thclassreunion.com/clients/1/19/19770213778af891f1b13fa25f964f50/File/77292607538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e6dbad68e31b2e45026a681e893fb6a/77941690170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ferm-matic.fr/upload/file/29343735479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cd3bbc9056---gekofelazajebupugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44ad24253b47ae5c2b94930ae837b590/97877251249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d540519e0e4---52848944160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=2+sample+z+test+for+proportionsPDF 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_off0000e122.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE122 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 7afed14b7b34bc90eddd23bf4454e41d80067b97f1631db00e6817687be81caa
font_01_sfnt_off0000f966.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF966 18020 bytes
SHA-256: 4046d2642cf19331886d77f274cde3a8d2f330522bab0ae1d592fa79c8c2ce31
font_02_sfnt_off00012956.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12956 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1