Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8ed6b94a3d87ada…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 23:21:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 232de32404e27e0bd9880f7e53c7b1a4 SHA-1: 9f12970674aad4eca191950902660e8b609f488c SHA-256: a8ed6b94a3d87ada6188081cf445191e6adb4177fa2d6d897e6059b2590cd6f8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9897

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=manual+do+usuario+epson+l3150 PDF link annotation
    • http://studiomanzella.com/userfiles/files/50008842846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmagame.com/userfiles/file/taliwifupolurokole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40e6e42cfa4c44577d63e7fd8ac9ee89/xiwelojiwodurebanaluni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b09d0dda167636a7e63ebcf587ea7105/sireduzazinunatizibakes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e58a07f0c7b---4956031907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f77debf88f---18635465960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bscartridge.com/pic/4468290572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160791b11adacb---gowapoloxipepusinofima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4e19aed77f---bopamodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b25826cfd---nejudelotavakafapudewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iltuosarto.com/file/fagofegax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l52k7auafqu39c4u2e99goava1/6357069225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getracemirates.com/userfiles/files/70197571042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epplast.com/files/file/juwuxiwurunudoxurep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gidromall.ru/img/uploads/file/mesowusewolanunano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saint-florentin.charcutier-traiteur.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21095861966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newabel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/molupoxogozonofimipuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demenagements-remond.fr/userfiles/file/20210804063539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bacninhonline.com/webroot/img/files/23922979138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sskj.pl/userfiles/file/jejemiweli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auto826.vnpec.xyz/uploads/files/46926702814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytekas.com/UserFiles/file/2580789624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161089c2edb440---waxesifovonokuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shipagents.nl/uploadfiles/file/gofovixovuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mpvgn0n639gtp2qkuc6erld9q0/dewusajenodobudufaxasat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d552911ccb3f475ed5b88453193bda5/62182802017.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_off000109f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109F9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001220b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1220B 19800 bytes
SHA-256: 2a68280fe1d5074f6bd594060552718c26fd2d2648ab2c1f6b35fdeabe92e6f7
font_02_sfnt_off00015565.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15565 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 35bd533dd08f2ab1f4e3c382ece80312f66a97f5ce25e9eb08856be13a2b394e