Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8465aa56c640054…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-07-01 20:15:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: c90e680a5d74c42bbf16818cdd7d1e59 SHA-1: 7f303c4157f182178d65991c944fc2ef6124a341 SHA-256: c8465aa56c640054d4453efc8636fa968c3e3a8b62b92a6e1a673b3050b01961
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the presence of multiple suspicious URLs points towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://grappin-annat-como.com/userfiles/grappin-annat-como.com/file/35405901096.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6da2b3a7b0bd0e2163baa316f22a67fd/70797653401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malashealthcare.com/userfiles/files/43720540488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc1bd80fd98d5501c7e9b88dd6ec7d92/7686831872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copingconversations.com/userfiles/file/silow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comobrew.com/newsite/images/user_uploads/file/38179701594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogoducthien.com/uploads/files/95990773341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9c8obj4ejen2n5rvjeesmi8e6/61762722272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac4d251f053---66032919890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071dc3824a8f---57173658335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ltoog39sij6pb26k0o14u0bjq1/womako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creative-format.com/upload/editor/files/zodegafamojedosotavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a508f0bce91---68740510833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewaves.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9hke4n38rabbt8tncmbpmvhng1/tegovasirugasiridoredo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-30/20210430110807342019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j9umri4o4h7imuqob8b3gquqdt/mosizira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ab8e66e65b---91591515045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b5bec1f7d---jekuman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epiphanych.com/images/file/wepagujinodojokoxaziduva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c487a24463169e774644d21230fa1cd1/jasanogizufijotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/94444469803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anapro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wazapufilusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dahchen.tw/userfiles/file/xamowololitozolaxanibima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=a+boy+and+his+dad+poem+answersPDF 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_off0000f2a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2A6 17056 bytes
SHA-256: fece4d6d5c9788d86844e7bad903d272db1957f0c272ec14be667df8c3461a69
font_01_sfnt_off00011ef0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EF0 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 5167de18c6388455d582ae90f85eb4fc38f5bca51c0a4cdce9040e07ea5a8a7f
font_02_sfnt_off00013798.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13798 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1