Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8fee1f05adfeded…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.8 KB Created: 2021-08-01 19:35:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1ab66471440c5c3e057c5c2f4547e3aa SHA-1: 96fac8a1143b9ff390f1df136985c33c9a9827ae SHA-256: a8fee1f05adfededaa38b19aac3546e4cd387383d8c8ef7dfe4cceffa2ca323e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised websites and disposable hosting, forming a link farm. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads, indicating a malicious intent to redirect users to untrusted content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+draw+the+place+value+chart
    • http://vizesblokk.hu/files/file/64664974698.pdf
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c9870a1128---vabalagurikogez.pdf
    • http://hart-metale.pl/gimnazjum/userfiles/file/salezivoretamuvobifoj.pdf
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/55119411271.pdf
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/664a932bbe1741765ef9f0131053e2ea/91627864936.pdf
    • https://fallsplat.se/file/gedolukakojuguzi.pdf
    • http://ranjitabiswas.com/userfiles/files/85179593668.pdf
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/564ad35b5906830f1627de541d20ac84/mazapodenewijilufonimij.pdf
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c930c381d17---81048606460.pdf
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cd4c7923f8---jozovek.pdf
    • http://djpress.pl/Image/files/90838376954.pdf
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2e1b0752ef---31019409372.pdf
    • http://hrzservices.com/uploadfiles/file/fiwabafejuzogutinos.pdf
    • http://ikhmongol.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nusisiserep.pdf
    • https://www.prieur-equipement.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/marisibona.pdf
    • https://oncallanatomist.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3913877827.pdf
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/fovajolelopumarosesife.pdf
    • https://p99.tw/pro_pic/files/vepimebotigiwatowalodowim.pdf
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aikuleas75v11sqoc7rdf2bbl1/xamulujexowij.pdf
    • http://asbazainville.org/userfiles/file/84376678493.pdf
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0f228f422a---favozitedudemuwopu.pdf
    • http://greenhousehotel.vn/uploads/image/files/10335260200.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001175a.bin
dd8a4b303976c871e169df98f29e127b95f1f3633bfd11d9d6d6ee70deb71092
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1175A 17292 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00014481.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14481 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015c98.bin
d87d97e6953a6f4156e409367565d675e8b336a957c6d79cb31363c9fed51f4a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15C98 10492 bytes