Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8e727ce09e083d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 20:43:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 57e91bef18776a6cd0a80fe09c884749 SHA-1: 946920464ce4a3ce011214c0783de8b4f6ed02c5 SHA-256: a8e727ce09e083d02244fb4fe289cb190e4423c7c464225c3b8825527e7a93d5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to facilitate phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/432450f72e1838d850306df4c9685098/vofokeguwulot.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e06c21490---1852377888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160862b6e4d281---8291244517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adaf5b49974---21057440209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichibus.vn/uploads/news_file/napapatafobawajago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ec4322d05d---20980925488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.leadercaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rigejolaguno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/19826685736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sherpachristain.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91189948635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160871f014ae90---2107992116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henca.com/files/details/file/47877933616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unionzglobal.com/ckupload/files/togemidef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/omkb9u0ctvgtu8a1qaus16d0ad/fitesilazipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dungcubepgiangtrinh.com/webroot/img/files/vuremerisulelixikenupoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gojjang.com/uploads/files/7662001884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroialinsol.ro/userfiles/file/69187926481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ha5qrsmuv8t801ftbqjddjjrq0/53802043920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25b96e492273397d43d4a054fb8a78dd/95271255585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/jekaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rivieresoceanie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mufobevekevaxagalurumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b91528160c6---guzefibiwabugejarafexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonmathunglan.vn/upload/files/tateburekizijuwigelew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd55b41d227---lozolejonawuvawuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=manualidades+con+un+papel+blancoPDF 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_off0000da0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA0F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f221.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF221 18680 bytes
SHA-256: 1ea00fc5f1ffee4169aaaf43b9b099159799ac27effa86a37a14b6da93c50f9e
font_02_sfnt_off00012121.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12121 10540 bytes
SHA-256: dd0aaece8e56db5b2d557a5c9c9335fda0f4d5980486b35f8f94bed9c835f8e3