Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8a732ee51b80655…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-08-13 13:34:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b255b1f8df275c4d8eb290c8a96dedbe SHA-1: 224fd8a0988df446cc1f6a41aa35f1b0b73652a2 SHA-256: c8a732ee51b80655f4d91032d9dfeca0f974a38e3efdea0c7e8b625a04af7103
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories or appear to be part of a link farm on disposable hosting. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to malicious content, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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 http://wohingltd.com/userfiles/30519880899.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://krzysztofmalec.pl/gfx/fck/file/nixaburasekawizerimob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792744c4756---46794261731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec551ec732e5e58b8bec8fb2c4324c5e/zifikudoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namjapizza.com/app/webroot/files/5113209314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cinstech-inspect-survey.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/25828378604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a0cd2550e---72292084744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/btmer5j75ul3c7migs0n5i4a3u/wamav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brbud.pl/userfiles/file/vofepesesomizixiteduzevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okazdedziecko.pl/_files/Media/file/24354941218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a47dbf2bff9---zuvunixizakir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4db4626ce8---fovepitasabipose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2dc03b2ad8b81dc882fdfc91abbff98/vevozobujifijanar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://punaide.com/userfiles/files/zexix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6836f4fa0e---mazowojakepise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duocthientam.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/wuzekoxelajagamisubok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f38150c734---jufomajepamasugisaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvugiayphep.biz/upload/ck/files/15274203336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8fa2c5974c---73460582255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45b6ca39ba3f5452e124974b71bc8b69/27258474489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f69a3041a0---rasajipik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richfield1962.com/clients/4/47/47516dc9824f3897220912ef171c404f/File/17157180228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4kgujmcut3bns6m30mdmivcfkq/59150435880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kitapkapla.com/upload/ckfinder/files/59844904009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honghuibio.com/d/files/97445412606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benardoutlite.com/admin/fckeditor/fckdata/file/toboxigijomegew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=simbologia+de+los+planos+arquitectonicosPDF 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_off0000f8d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000110f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110F0 11320 bytes
SHA-256: 775079a549ba9e3cd15de782f934696b2e459ab0b6bc1926cf448c13b2ee6000
font_02_sfnt_off00012ac5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AC5 18504 bytes
SHA-256: 5c58f3a785c57e7f0bf0f80ae96604a335f25fdf7acd70d749aaaa9cd9af0f04