Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8d1705cdb56762a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-07-20 06:16:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 184ac561aa2c19fbb59d44bec9826d9e SHA-1: e27bb48cddf4f0b2e9f0b1b8cf0573302ecc6884 SHA-256: a8d1705cdb56762a2964f94189b96cc2723c41daed38644bb8e2f719e9447f41
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the link farm behavior is indicative of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://barcelonacentremedic.cat/files/galeria/files/fusulozuvisuniveramawo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/519246f30da8aaba7ee4ee7ce0935253/dusazen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb1b4fe18dd---busegivunuzad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b954f4679e6---62779108510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vyveva.eu/UserFiles/File/74855989247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtselect.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13931162852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86a00c31e2dfef8a460e2ea4cdde3238/lawuwizofed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d38657662ca3c5cf3bb84f64836876fc/zevutakuzafuzusew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sonarmusic.hu/up_image/file/70740178019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniquecharacters.com/upload/files/33261567322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5638807fb9---zamupove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160922924e9bc3---dinizoxetarolewup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f36e40414ec---balapolumatofuforiloda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a41e43a4be000f124187cbbba576368b/79739126213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/81322826180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d85900f20d---20738116230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qhzs88.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021062423020480554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://op-gold.com/ck_image//files/zixixaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0qo7vosbgsivtokebprb3ls0ro/josonesibowog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160801f72d36d8---27240527316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blessedfamilycovenant.org/clients/c/cb/cb727bc273eb4203dc66fb73741ae5ae/File/11842280991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://numen-wow.com/userfiles/cloud//files/banerowegemamop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d018a377cf---83200843052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072556493a8f---22759978241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=array+of+structures+in+c%2B%2B+programmingPDF 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_off0000bcca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCCA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4E1 10972 bytes
SHA-256: fd0cdaecde66bb74311e534d6a1fe3e3cb262ea4a20676b37c476e749f661fcc
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE6E 15944 bytes
SHA-256: 25341346dcf774e48f982956960ec2b14a29a9a5d288533ca65eb19c678df3b8