Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8a6870ae2ed19c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 19:20:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: f6967a48c4a6b2d16a351dd3cfc81add SHA-1: 63392a55f7ec5d02f9d8d56e67c9abc19e9759a1 SHA-256: c8a6870ae2ed19c0fca0804ad68186ce80c7d78c7884a8469781f32ff86c74da
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 disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d552bd7f102---20832197603.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/64091389760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612cb09e756bb---27722480211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1be739e3d046749b4a6a9e3a835239e5/77836761413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/wumopakuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retco.ge/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75188787647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctm.it/userfiles/file/50528744288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amazingindiaphotos.com/amazingindiaphotos//upload/fckimage/file/93963613684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa960edfed6670cde9798fa96c365be8/96191563518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f035d5b43c---fegobaxipifitunaragisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qak784qcfvcuq05ileqhtkqnn5/18865463746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromoink.com/updates/file/95836959651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-pisanie-prac.pl/famprojekt_z_serwera/images/file/38062720110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanseniors.ca/userfiles/file/bejadutobuxune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-baby-clothes.com/d/files/75413238967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pchs1967.com/clients/b/b3/b38b0c0be7ceca4b309dcb684d78a7c5/File/zaxinegipasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibeguiristain.com/userfiles/files/kipenosogumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/75510277386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/osem2hfj96bqm162ms2ps0qnol/nutemetovaxowesodujiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomaszfilipczak.pl/userfiles/file/jexixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rabotatver.ru/userfiles/admin/xifozasebagala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salt17.com/userfiles/files/91881217373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hglobaltour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210716_17B241FA2A717B2F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e90a2b5725---parobodoxizedurel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=sub+terra+baldomero+lillo+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://lapdonline.org/file/88640837636.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_off0000d5a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5A3 10704 bytes
SHA-256: 7bd1707ccd1434002827a87d9ce663279384d13c369c717607953e0bc6df4f1c
font_01_sfnt_off0000edfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDFA 19036 bytes
SHA-256: 3f002e9072d6c62f82744463b9d3abc4bad7744f325e522b9646616caedf2b06
font_02_sfnt_off00011f6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F6C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1