Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8afa672d8ab0116…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-06-28 23:36:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: de2e50b785d071a88beba54c73c6b871 SHA-1: 894926e7eb3e8eab4882f658a4fca6a1105ddaf5 SHA-256: c8afa672d8ab0116c8f4911c684fa9080a7fb7924e66bbc86f935aef53fbab8a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites, leveraging SEO tactics with 'utm_term' parameters.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=is+a+3.9+unweighted+gpa+good PDF link annotation
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160abd5b9cd8a5---rukifebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jkohut.pl/file/62690830950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tessuno.com/upload/files/60ce40570a58e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmykominkowe.pl/Obrazki/edytor/file/biroduxenotoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fc0f4bf41fa2e7aa702e4042e5ef65e/11462858168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f5857eff61a1584c8c1858a8fc6c979/zitepowedagiwonogoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://la-klamm.org/Files/files/jezizusilaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1c8c3f31cb---mibiwelufipulatawene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97boj2ab9hen3jr1bch0784qu8/vodadakulede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.treehousecare.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8bab2a731---99644043463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/renll3cu7imv0ofhpmmmn3kb31/juxitelidot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59q5o0eqkijp9q4f13t521kh0s/73168161155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lasanisports.com/files/rezodidojimadububetanug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/jepevubixibapejabusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evevoyance.fr/adh/.-/file/mojetexowopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://np-laser.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-23/20210623115413172797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbazainville.org/userfiles/file/wuwazibovopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3ae7364eca---57199723988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/392f32310742f9fec7bea0a42ecc56dc/29506205084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3801278312---kadewunatiwewafej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainescentreasia.com/images/file/diridojip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlineexpert.in/userfiles/file/60482780625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kopdesign.nl/userfiles/file/67664910791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5759ac506b242b61407de36b9d90caee/gezivesegufojagudopiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ba1e7c811f332a6bfbc9d64e81e593f/52385431997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0106f72387c131c1c03ebcb01867614/fozunefeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9as8pephv3le044re8m5lmhe4/44583472862.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_off0000f592.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF592 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010da4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DA4 18184 bytes
SHA-256: 88e283dddfddf753cb5772883aa77317df842a751610c1e3b9d9d453ab11e1ed
font_02_sfnt_off00013d85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D85 11068 bytes
SHA-256: 2f51d5ae516535bdc7f84c6cf992f42331fbeb196a08a2f9bbd273feb5313290