Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8fa84f250561982…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-09-19 23:27:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 98bdb46faba07d6a1b5aa0987020d005 SHA-1: cf3b552125a580a00b58410a8458e10ce12add39 SHA-256: c8fa84f2505619824a61ba6a0cfed6ac0b2852288de489c8c4c947c8d137e11a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL analysis strongly indicate a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://24cvety.ru/upload/files/96147281380.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e5de7489716ff86425c73bbd6e9b581/nivumarunitugifaxad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://12shio5.com/contents/files/sipazaboliwawedilokomur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasomedia.com/userfiles/file/zoxusitesazazaxitolufun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zangerlelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nonupodanawofapazirusade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f3ce3bbbdc---96444400562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143285788517---34189272283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143949dd7d40---bonobawul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.training/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/rikalenavepitidofimovuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prakseologia.eu/userfiles/file/54430066505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colleges-in-tamilnadu.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/70030713055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appartementslisa.it/an3_Uploads/file/39454507472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://awarelaxcentrum.cz/user_files/file/79441115496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phucatgarment.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29494840916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swhwsolution.it/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/rotidezipexulopaxugejosox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theprofitnesstrainers.com/userfiles/file/84751548782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apskarota.org/userfiles/file/54884247191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161423ecf0dcf4---91960960685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gallerylingard.com/uploads/file/42513115492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yakutiaprime.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/lozogigidobijonavaxowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilenmr.com/files/files/kudunusagizowep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.net/images/uploads/files/56924786054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medrea.ru/upload/files/54157185696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d36fa3f9c4---36111170010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=chain+cube+2048PDF 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_off0000b774.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB774 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 0060d1f78d426f9d585635775596c39b2e197ac155c7241601133757911c5e22
font_01_sfnt_off0000cfa7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFA7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e7b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7B9 16652 bytes
SHA-256: e461904abbc265073c21f61db743598a76fcb474298de01b1d922cb1ac894156