Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8ede1e56312a589…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-07-14 04:25:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ed9111365a3320d2299f8fc0f92716d2 SHA-1: e2b31254eb45864e48a7bc8ba5e2d7ca473f876f SHA-256: c8ede1e56312a589c52cdf83a5719f446819b8f185746db0e9a897ad3deb9155
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious or phishing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079fb4ecf575---20577645362.pdf
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0r4jkntkl1ridp6docb4c9qhef/nolupelobosisax.pdf
    • https://aplusadvance.com/naver_editor/data/file/japuxexavir.pdf
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gjvoi00m2a8j6sl8flir4fuln8/sonunota.pdf
    • https://kemxoi.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/34472770321.pdf
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a78cf837098---pekawuvifufazomunu.pdf
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gq481e5fce6olabh2ufrv42kp6/85603607843.pdf
    • https://bwawarszawa.pl/upload/file/70864653924.pdf
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8516b80d62---zuguk.pdf
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e8a4864abb---79509953605.pdf
    • https://stallion-international.com/userfiles/file/loxuwipijokorudisatataxox.pdf
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/vipuvuferunige.pdf
    • http://yesilderecine.com/admin/editor_resim/file/99452695214.pdf
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41098aa76076f9c63c54a59587d73a28/13603885322.pdf
    • http://moscow-vernisage.com/files/files/ledugurudijogale.pdf
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81624e6a45b03178568d6bfd4c259eaa/nuzod.pdf
    • https://bandai-k.com/userfiles/file/pobudab.pdf
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0344j47c1nh92usaugngko3rmc/xifopi.pdf
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vbop9b3h59jnal1ilgl57ajec4/99441803586.pdf
    • http://bogelaipigeon.com/upload/file/86973487591.pdf
    • https://machinex-machines.com/UserFiles/File/43993220239.pdf
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2f75ca1095010e37eb666c684dd329b/95435934219.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=present+perfect+present+perfect+continuous+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ca28.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA28 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e23a.bin
f5349faf6eb5356122f9e0a51be57fe06389075a6d9a20e404ba5f25b5717aaa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE23A 16772 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010d48.bin
b75fc7a328bcae2c061aacf8aeb31f4229d8cf554d73cf9fa7edee4c3532cd16
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D48 10504 bytes