Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8ed4f00fd679a3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-10 04:36:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 95a7313fc011478ef44849fad39ad23d SHA-1: 00b06cc862580fc9fdd47e9ea112600a951ff457 SHA-256: a8ed4f00fd679a3b7b8b70e19f655330a1a36229aa28232f99886e260dca2313
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal that the PDF acts as a link farm, pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites, suggesting it's designed to distribute further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure reinforces the phishing or social engineering aspect of the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://dichvuhappyhouse.com/upload/files/tatopo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://silver1979.com/upload/file/sagijeminizusan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faw-asia.com/image/upload/files/35329326459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuanhuaabshanquoc.vn/files/83327092712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clickbox.ro/images/file/22548554999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrarontani.it/userfiles/files/81714518181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paseppe.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jepewegas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slmj8.com/data/userfiles/files/jizuzivagafak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/pijamarifunurikafuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongthamphucthang.com/images/news/files/gumaponomebosose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aibasylhet.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/saredotam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xlpe.net/Images_upload/files/67361716425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/053b3e33c54c9469e83bd80261c09efa/64923056730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avalon-essenzen.at/userfiles/file/84638454389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f472da6de---niwomoxajutobuzowumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gospel-streams.com/asset/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45371736738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sangjeom.com/userfiles/file///99663171393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banktapeunadana.com/tapeunadana/bank2/admin/userfiles/file/2995740130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhk-aindling.de/userfiles/files/budipuvoximod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f290b831b---2389992232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supermovi.com/userfiles/files/63425061254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f277d75ec3---34345245651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=anime+moba+offlinePDF 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_off0000da7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA7A 10132 bytes
SHA-256: 05f407a1571a300204db41381d4650e843b31a05e1c628738fa627a922e46636
font_01_sfnt_off0000f10a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF10A 17492 bytes
SHA-256: 1bf0cbd920de659e89c846e1e3b1041ca7bfed47e074cacbe068dbe3d5d00c13
font_02_sfnt_off00011e9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E9A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1