Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8f78e07e546850b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-07-05 20:50:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 9bc58aaad04d08cd74263d55f9eada42 SHA-1: f5a553e7fa63d51baa24e4deb34e4187ad05dac5 SHA-256: a8f78e07e546850b5ccfb72a52a8e6a2d980929fc852d7a1b71756ed68837686
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and the ML classifier also flagged it as malicious. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 http://saydersan.com/firma/files/dekuwesilixekisaxub.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094649fe53c4---75255355000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carszana.com/image/upload/File/86067922934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychoterapia-przemysl.net/img/userfiles/file/nawaxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987d313f8f5---31608621721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c7ce44f76e---96732509782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6s6u5chb5gjjnajnmmlv32t6k0/xeponugegubeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f778a9be9e66c56ea4e245396a5dcc63/74931515281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2914cba688a34e2cef4470b8da6c69de/26052087925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccj.jp/images/uploads/fckeditor/file/lateti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pousadamarazul.tur.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1282b1f90---semukepisufetarepetiriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5177772b250ba7817e06a2279c959c1f/zilunatubeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogies.com/includes/template/uploads/file/52712892687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c52ab1d89b29663ce8bc4a43cc72eff/kibukutokilusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b34c68b9014---bilunajakopegikoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaughanreunion.com/clients/7/7c/7cfe0b8ff6d5e3136a6575a9b258a09c/File/gozirepujavubakuleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b095585d2b51f21610f355f583667627/sulipurufubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pqvtoe83lhrm29bimvhsltvqmn/89563841050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shethof.ch/cgi-bin/dynamisch/file/wifatemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/464d780010aa3a8fa8fbfeba4f3326c3/12290043540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160814bd2f12a0---58907498060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a34f9cfe752211cc17a9b22e920524ff/vowojuvosuzoluneluvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2de7dec4d629e30eeedd95c620bd8f65/47161887945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jorkurojus.com/userfiles/file/mowumasapuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apartmaji-zunicmile.com/uporabnik/file/lunaperipela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=missing+digits+addition+and+subtractionPDF 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_off0000d57e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD57E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED90 17188 bytes
SHA-256: 23cdd3dd70a6bf930b85a3f48aa8668ecd2df1d594182d88f6d8d8d31adf2f57
font_02_sfnt_off00011aaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AAA 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 43e060417acd202379b6b2a498640a9a02bee1a9bc26accec228f87fc6397f89