Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8f340f56516ba96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 02:55:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 25277fb5214ecf933272d95893740850 SHA-1: be0b3a78fc1585c8ea625df4d365f31c95674dca SHA-256: a8f340f56516ba96907d0ddcc78fce88fa73bdc5ab174bfb65ca83d923ac06c7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096aeb606e6d---25520978697.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://palcev.ru/userfiles/file/39074984880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vswet.ru/f/1705315952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://momsystem.ru/public/file/buroxewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mnknlpsqqtbhag339goj7bpcvh/45587735718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grapes4u.ca/sites/all/sites/grapes4u.ca/files/rufumuvositinijediro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160978dc90ba00---dakapetukurojazopewexiler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/260326329653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5d881d6658---fadekexazodag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patc.fr/imagesfile/winesifigibilixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taevlingar.se/images/pages/file/25752131067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/599c13ddc8243c622f1ee4bc5eb74416/92820394611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fentesmakina.com/paket/upload/files/2788866578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/67137276095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607919b86f83b---72701389962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miele-service-center.ru/uploads/files/vipumavaxunukore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e833f24a8e87336418bb75288b92d29f/49421901428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df9c6d6ad4---nugalufivosegodupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodfortune.hk/UpLoadFile/file///10913529438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jacsonsfurniture.com/userfiles/file/kufoluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098beecdbb35---gofakilidimokosaditekalog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oilandgaswork.com/userfiles/file/zolijibogirivali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf61e7353de---lukagupasukevibom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c30549428---42997958490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=12th+science+chemistry+book+pdf+gsebPDF 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_off0000bd2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD2F 11280 bytes
SHA-256: ee008f8509a8af21bab52fae3e0a3c36af31db8bf91550c8d685e91484ec5faf
font_01_sfnt_off0000d723.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD723 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF35 18572 bytes
SHA-256: 505afc14468955da10dcead68a025b354e4a5d8d1e299257bcf1d7f8d3844ead

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