Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8e6af5a626ba5f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

147.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 22:19:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 65b858227d756f00f0be365321b32733 SHA-1: 8b7df8202006b8147a65c643037ba2ac0b425195 SHA-256: a8e6af5a626ba5f7e7614aca7d4d4d46f0f29765847d03766517f2107d24c31f
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 compromised WordPress sites and appear to be part of a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a lure to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9838

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://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095f06f1fe18---22133573812.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/17107861690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/584a773219fe7613b9ae17196b950c97/89208881715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioturina.com/userfiles/files/lagofokubadedalixano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonwen.org/userfiles/file/95089309745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventilyatsia-v-sochi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gejalazirekeduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160747639ddb2f---fosugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e7861020d---67603788940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/11231839658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed6791b9ff2481d6a485f1e754157ddb/woxugiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wodepcb.cn/uploadfiles/files/gukak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tese.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84659084789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16393b3d95b8cadeb93876259907b17f/79705736531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b9019c008---29364880241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n861gnm6r26il5kmtre13dl086/52323565208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9eadfb667fdafe68937130f9d09ae9d7/19268514942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a531707c21---34975388941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adba487ac30---18724735876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/380b58cbd356ea61bdc2927f57c72a84/59767857577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cdf04808e8c32b435ac890f85a6cca2/wiminagelaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/mijileketodisubufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daivupaint.com/img-chamthi/files/giwajifatug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=devil+may+cry+3+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001c9c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C9C6 18364 bytes
SHA-256: 30b9c34b459419ea8249a9d6f5bc3ce2445220b9d11662d86926969a91f7cf7b
font_01_sfnt_off0001f9f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F9F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0002120c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2120C 10512 bytes
SHA-256: 77e8c1bb84fcfd62a60ba4e440df005f0660e2e66d402a4ceb3c2bdacf174520
font_03_sfnt_off000229fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x229FD 6184 bytes
SHA-256: f78cebcf2c0c4b0a23698ab7b50c7bc68bc840e64b6abe19949bb702421708e7