Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8e12e6a576655b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-10-01 03:04:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 3b3c0490733fb5344509bd748c55b125 SHA-1: 8a21e48460d0ea156c43df4faf15c894bd8ac06a SHA-256: a8e12e6a576655b263cdf44523ccb45662a530e74a4bcec3ee3112fb8fe0a203
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting. The PDF contains numerous external URIs, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=youtube+minimizer+pro+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/metos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-29/20210929162936569542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd074dfe965d4bc3d60f10ef7eda4cb1/37294062869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dpsszczytno.pl/photo/file/sopelotawoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ddb0dadb7d---naxawitebokezusetened.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://badischer-kunstverein.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72213424570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caytrong.vn/Images_upload/files/68203825069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kadh.kr/bobod/upload/file/70922897058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimandyoo.com/userfiles/file/65523542373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maraulsan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82547983120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aarhuskortet.dk/images/file/68736667543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okuninka-biale.pl/userfiles/file/dinesiroxubevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rdasesores.gestconcursal.com/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sulexilojafeseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c763f87d12---xavomajumidulezagawut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tareeapartment.com/user_img/files/78669318720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kheops-so.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tejawebodelefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikllc.mn/uploads/files/39063970037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontiermea.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/desadetaneketitun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://519pf.com/userfiles/files/38344084394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resicolor.com/upload/files/zavaferipevoxubag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://textstricker.de/benutzerdateien/lekagapoxajufefaxitemiwan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bong-dem-long.org/upload/editor/files/45502008931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-ssuances.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90023701621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4x4autok.hu/userfiles/files/72188267771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castel.ro/userfiles/file/73684883203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c4e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4E3 10576 bytes
SHA-256: b52fa93a53ba6f0aea12f241bf42017efbaa2f7b5d6f87d4741977dbace85834
font_01_sfnt_off0000dccc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCCC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f4de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4DE 19728 bytes
SHA-256: 387c74c2b065e937af5ac6b720b5710f84a6fed10012a31f0cf334f62030bd1c