Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8dc15af7d9aa140…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.6 KB Created: 2021-07-31 12:22:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e1aa8adcb21265fa7fffa8f6784ecf24 SHA-1: ff7c8f513e66d785f1fea5197af0b488dc8208f1 SHA-256: a8dc15af7d9aa1403e9a99dfaf3a8123c8299c4515eec14f744a2ddd52fd5eb4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or trojan delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac353a03eb3bdec4362ed3efaeb78c57/68582469296.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2a68e8fcca---65080704470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nolimitscenter.be/peausitive/images/FCKeditor/file/puvobivirikavumog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artgraf24.pl/userfiles/file/dazuwozerawifenajuwip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moveo-sport.pl/userfiles/file/53736287302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070902e7def6---duvemujer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/31384832119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bcfc4c18cd---55657466976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alteredcompta.com/buddha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30022312214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/53238236179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esipro.lu/userfiles/file/surevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobaths.com/app/webroot/img/files/14226179605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inphilong.com/upload/files/vavituwugunodafamadapit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b271a058a1a---buvitas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90e6d942b703c309acf36e00231d6b5d/gigobukiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olimpic.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/farevazolilawazojoniko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taborcapitalpayment.com/clients/d/d0/d0a3925ee25d0adc8806453b18bccccc/File/45440486855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9ab65173b2f5f17efc5ea3c2c5d317f/62049476978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c16eda9a318cc21bb2280479197c424/46425335281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partner-support.net/user_data/userfiles/files/18062597879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kocarbon.vn/luutru/files/sidanosiwenolodusuzuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://righetti-ticozzi.it/userfiles/files/wikokukexawilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mmferfpbvk1dve2oeeg25dbg31/kigevamomefoget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+oxidation+number+of+the+atoms+in+chlorine+gas+quizletPDF 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_off000110b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110B5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000128c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128C7 18244 bytes
SHA-256: 2c68434c77264c02c0ac27e5519c679cffa3f5b368ca292fa9a0fc3fb6c35634
font_02_sfnt_off000158e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x158E9 11464 bytes
SHA-256: 32c64fab12810bd7b4603045db4152caa2ef54886b4ff8f0c6ec1de262cd5dcf