Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8a0aeb27e084f12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:49:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 669f3fe4a373ccb37ecb8f5f147692b0 SHA-1: 740ded8363e07ba0fc4c5a9af7532e28018c51d2 SHA-256: c8a0aeb27e084f12d94db8b093862ce7173b6742d2d4e21f6100cc6292225312
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9803

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gijon+mapa+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.derbysignandgraphics.com/uploads/file/19015240767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autowassenindex.nl/images/uploads/69320937696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xdata.pl/app/webroot/img/ckf/files/mapilupekixekuzixako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b2fa6a9932895d132edade76f7899c4/noxedababiwapukaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a77c0eb6a2d---wepakituj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d27d4c3078---78105554949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.egavilanes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juzobewudijip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccd21493f5c6296b4393f3dbf5d56b2d/tesagididu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/059d548dbdaaea7f7652ec0f9ee5b9dc/40898500250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anukulagrotech.com/userfiles/file/xijuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cauthinh.com/luutru/files/dodan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5177aa4340---vojugidujelegatijopekupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutstudio.it/userfiles/file/10578225681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5a5279b913---noviram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210621135632617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703443e4858---53990086658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d27d3f83364---83898878785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/htao1nhse7bo172puqjion3s54/76742040198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://warsztatgdynia.pl/app/webroot/media/files/vufidemuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lightningriskassessment.com/ci/userfiles/files/zasezedibeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/90500897661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc5bad4c6b8---lugiwebilulodebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be7eae63e05---27711565711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konstruktor33.ru/app/webroot/files/files/43089643594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottotech.center/userfiles/file/rivinifoboserilatigej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608494cc8df9a---gapitifal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00011a37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A37 23948 bytes
SHA-256: 635c514def357869e036f3924b8adfa7d825435e458c1bba253b45bac32e0cf5
font_01_sfnt_off000156af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x156AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016ec6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16EC6 10284 bytes
SHA-256: c048833eeff78a27d4c91c67c5d30a5b594727b428dccddbfa196dbe048bb4af