Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8a9dca4e5da3cee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 05:09:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 67f20d522c7846bdad6c6c878e148d97 SHA-1: 534772b6be3a82f2a1b966c70ea23c66963a2e9b SHA-256: c8a9dca4e5da3cee9bbfdb282a6b87b45616b278f3236511a2cab2935df2bf4f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. The file contains a link farm pointing to compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or downloads. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links on compromised domains strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m3lv7gs631369j2kmtgu3t7pd8/60977516697.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://refah4ter.info/basefile/hotelrefah4terir/files/98491786470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0ecdb084853e1244f1f15f6a7f034ac/33988402836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5ad9c45942ee400b1ef3afbda07da50/jufukosupupotiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6f3f908c16a65989e9236eaafb861e0/nulonazixusupuzat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thunderesp.com/ckfinder/ckfinder.htmlfiles/milazodisavudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pt2-turbo-j3t.com/contents//files/sizazebuferipirapek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ildongwire.com/userfiles/file/ruwozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/jeperutikoxevinozon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608897099ab54---50891236371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbagencement.fr/uploads/file/48639747709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20tpkvfvhurrq0kt2hbdv31tkd/ximerejuparibalovoluzesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/983339ed48cded4aa42d470a1e811d66/levixonizibebazul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aggengr.com/uploads/CMS/file/fiforavabarefuwubot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52f50559edfa8259199c4e4ccd8aeeea/86727865940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2fea863421---96022872076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/3224900338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/50198361359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fbb83c16a27---23939596457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jnhjpqudkefkovg6qg9ukpcvh1/sogivumeropalalavotesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hippocratio.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20945925561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a6qtiuurt3j3roupl389cj1br/pazesufawimefewozagikevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalmediasolutions.ae/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mesomeladet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scalper.ir/data/files/file/vijug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609455f383aa6---37839427235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jecoexports.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pejukujuvowire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibshop.gr/uploads/_uploads/files/luvomisedolisowoxavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aircond.md/upload_fck/file/vaxidetumojakijubageguker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=psp+games+android+apk+downloadPDF 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_off0000da82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA82 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f294.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF294 19188 bytes
SHA-256: e3adfab7189f81004b95b8f850a32b95b8b4126430c38c79466d34931b34de76
font_02_sfnt_off00012529.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12529 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 583e46dfb691352fb0997673859ac5072e48f8042388f2bfdb5628d26bc4c79f