Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8432b971968ea91…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-07-18 07:50:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: adf47fe0cf60693bd370473353df09be SHA-1: c8146116f84340602bab5e094ec6a8ed47b871e2 SHA-256: c8432b971968ea9127d07047d7426df1a02631575c5f8e59e32ddba43b8b39d3
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to disposable hosting and compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://cosplay-expo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67487399708.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dezmaster.com/userfiles/file/wovufitaladozuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bharatdarshan.net/rgroup/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zukuruduwijesadabogufiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artistalexanderkanevskyroyalshakespeareglobetheatrelondon.com/clientMedia/file/30965603477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48e46ef313e04115fc1178d5f0c32ff6/sawatov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd73906b137---28279220921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c394373ecc7---12803968581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cedd6cf1762---kaguparudafutada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://com123.vn/uploads/file/17078878607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c06f05c42db---bofifubimuginoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bedandbreakfastchia.it/userfiles/file/11119822542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bf4f25f162---23783480122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tverzhilservis.ru/foktver.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21229176758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aneri12.cz/res/file/11206531963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romento.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/49716553469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlandhighclassof1962.com/clients/c/c3/c330a44b04b080977bf299ea430a317d/File/12432738795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trafikyaren.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1o1tsaon360kn7upfqc32s1l92/gurefidevorepagukogafuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shhs69reunions.com/clients/e/e9/e92da0bc0099326815942f81a5c18dfc/File/dubetobonilaporipofufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.fr/userfiles/file/32774560630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9fc584057a7f51b9bf94c212e2e1163/22302691044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signika.pl/Upload/file/25481972058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c8715dd070---jelerirexobodutoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fzsvybbs.at/userfiles/file/kitupupumid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leadershipcareer.kr/fckeditor/_upload/file/57806979126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=4+pics+1+word+level+234+answerPDF 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_off0000dcd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCD7 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9d5144547e0b729630886a3ad3ce48e7da84b0115899dd9c2390406af6f0fecd
font_01_sfnt_off0000f21c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF21C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A2E 17156 bytes
SHA-256: b269724970ea612d298478936e382570e670ce3482528b1310b2e7587178f298
font_03_sfnt_off000136ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136EA 10884 bytes
SHA-256: 9fff7c2d301044072502a45387518787b13aa14464049c81417fef74745e1a23