Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8fa96a868855c96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-09-24 21:08:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 249270be3bd64388066db7dfaaf5bf4c SHA-1: 5fbc6f2ba24ba8f56ea1f7d6266f305f507512ce SHA-256: c8fa96a868855c96db8b0b20dac0f49be023018c46ed31b1a9f4bced666ab1c0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics reveal that the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. These sites host further PDF files, suggesting a multi-stage distribution or phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06a13700c32a4b7546ff9a2ad9ad2051/80940251599.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161332444c9f77---gepewip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ee120590e3---50858427266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ouhkpthaa.org/userfiles/fozawivofurapafaper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mantyobras.com/userfiles/file/vebudem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newcar-rental.com/uploads/files/202109150558136431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungtamsangloc.vn/uploads/ck_upload/files/maxopages.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nvsrolko.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22912880768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolemontagna.it/userfiles/files/24685075293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheapstandard.com/uploads/files/69217772732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hnhaa.com/userfiles/tnejp/files/39452248814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/xapipigelobarawijazupat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eskuvotoszkanaban.hu/editor_up/nawipamotogug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--49s538bo8ux8c.net/userfiles/file/29111638566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iowatriallawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/38194609507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partroyfuneralhome.com/partroy/assets/file/nitamut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuocnam.xyz/images/files/fininalafumixuzinewadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guowangcable.com/d/files/fejijapejivenugode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiqi-machine.com/d/files/fagizilazuzusiranepexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/menadumekosojapamizeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://connect-event.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53898261116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shortguycentral.com/ck_uploads/files/40536061244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kovrdom.ru/sites/all/sites/default/files/file/lomevigizolejofirinujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq-exambd.bdbabymart.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zozekijevitafiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evolution-dev.com/file_media/file_image/file/tibepij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aksukartela.com/images_upload/files/17010257305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=trashbox+ru+androidPDF 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_off0000b870.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB870 10376 bytes
SHA-256: fcabcb54582cf8efdc66f58a928743d82bc4e6cdc65f9e1dec47ab84e8b056bd
font_01_sfnt_off0000cfc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFC4 19120 bytes
SHA-256: 3e1048df5c64422124cf6036b5482a523cd4310b1c9cd5b1efc530f4637bb351
font_02_sfnt_off0000fff6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFF6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1