Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8a8f2ae8d131ac1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 17:29:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 0c6cc3c2271985272b80c94e9206fab4 SHA-1: 48340c25a814c2d9084caa510932ddba22f3eee0 SHA-256: c8a8f2ae8d131ac185ec8a2d4832bb61fb65fc5832953083fed2681b453adc77
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=burn+out+bore+out PDF link annotation
    • http://jeyadhurgatemple.com/userfiles/file/lubugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stehovani-ostrava.cz/static_pages_files/file/rafisepolipilav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b954e84d777---50675746590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160819a8368741---gumibonejuvovug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607771e8673d8---43554322682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f14725eb534cd6b8aaa8baa4c347920/14763289724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jhe18htlnmsg5to6aegsssn7ol/84626251005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scpt.it/userfiles/files/dojofotoparezof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rsun.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pututisifijurebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arc-en-cielproduce.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4738056962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5a2la0javjbmdlhmtdr3p13ud/vikapafinamalejiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608712ccc546e---vemapuxikijejawulagave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a60b1954f---31855159556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hncastlecable.com/d/files/nimunelububoburisit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e3b3ade6b7---kiladurix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c185d69b40e---devatanepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braintreeclinics.com/app/webroot/img/files/dosomadezunabubekifukawej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maspacientes.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ltshstk3nfbc9r0dh3sjgg1n4r/sunip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosallaesf.ir/uploads/ck/files/bojixevoruwim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newo.ru/files/files/kerizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmhu.eu/uploads/uplib/file/45265216130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086bd67cd20b---65828337280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fa668976fe---lupobezepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpk.hu/_user/file/90898489067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bab4b0b2260---gikezivabesuxokevematarod.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_off0000f129.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF129 19548 bytes
SHA-256: baf62367d2008de060ea4aed3e013c98c2f8746a5b049117661292e58ccf69cd
font_01_sfnt_off00011ff5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FF5 9928 bytes
SHA-256: c05dbf1476565d5cbddd8dbf89aa5c69c3ba41d3e16843a3d35cc51daeea9e8e
font_02_sfnt_off0001360b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1360B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1