Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad8b8064e03c98ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-08-04 06:53:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 1d200cf09410744ac93801be09abdf72 SHA-1: 9a3da0f580240744a8a476d88e89fca1885da941 SHA-256: ad8b8064e03c98eee7e097db4094feee52f88cb05ed157938fb690e7ab849e4b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or to redirect users to malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9938

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://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81e367c77dc353fc490c07e44f47fa76/70609604870.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fototipia.hu/files/files/83927046974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetamblj.si/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jafegefaredetok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/sitemikokipukugonereda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maspacientes.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vjln9cspu1tub3ee5n7uuf2an1/gafaxomujeguzuwenegobej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5285275728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f1e2e49101---11469091067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobathware.com/app/webroot/img/files/gapikosuvik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abc-tel.ru/data/File/kadegotixarax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0opupp0r80725f4t83drkuns6o/sasekukusabavikeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/moxajadukiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce7f9ecc6b---29616968167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8ac7a8558ecbde6e07b40d0687790fa/wepezitarur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitness-sport.it/userfiles/file/pidukulazimobuwetilogux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hart-metale.pl/gimnazjum/userfiles/file/28186920128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensasoft.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d0jogdh7h11bvpij5pjjd75j2/53068182347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607505db48e9b---ziribivonufimaselafij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75c48f405fe1f3552bf97dcb07661ff3/jenemirokedoxefimolepejus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autowagon.it/userfiles/files/3910686685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0516.com/userfiles/file/20210725174119_0j64re.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dudikom.pl/userfiles/file/4122470489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrzservices.com/uploadfiles/file/11872813360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22b533fd02b07cdd901562d486494091/musiponusamapokusonobiwim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8d326ee83fceaa544f1c3d3da5351f5/rejiwer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geofer.eu/userfiles/files/57295323465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=we+are+the+world+25+haiti+mp3+free+downloadPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c5e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5E1 18776 bytes
SHA-256: 3ded9aaca2ef9e6c6e95cee9882111b9cda0db582afcb602817e0619031ab472
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3C7 16468 bytes
SHA-256: 058f2d145bad52e9ae6f9e85b7388aee2f079879fcab30e8d831fc36618a4114
font_02_sfnt_off00010ee6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EE6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000126fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126FD 11100 bytes
SHA-256: 3dea19a2d29e022fed26ef1e76d7e6e04b04ee4fe8e6f16af6859f9734a35d06