Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca8f7f940355610e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-06-28 01:05:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b717d84e4723341c245be1e41866aa2a SHA-1: c199fa1c73f1656ae4870a2b544cabce0dbf20b4 SHA-256: ca8f7f940355610e7be2b2ee2be054ace5395366494cff508afeb15612b53b61
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised websites and link farms, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links indicates a likely phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=physical+science+manual
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7f163c48e9---37001698111.pdf
    • http://www.derbysignandgraphics.com/uploads/file/91193971755.pdf
    • http://security-m.jp/tool/images/file/vavevagejasim.pdf
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5db87a12998750ceb8f60eca941c70e2/53974116925.pdf
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4709b76fb1---tusovavexugixesagiledexa.pdf
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bfa08f4cfd44053d5f8d8723520d25e/wanavumusef.pdf
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2c2088bcec---guduvanexenupuv.pdf
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607230590216e---nasubugixagigobere.pdf
    • http://agrion.org/upload/fichier/xotojegodupekabujobolezo.pdf
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/5455028033.pdf
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaa9eabd0d5---dudeworapazike.pdf
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769660af1c3---jejidazoromaj.pdf
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a9d4ec558c---98540846305.pdf
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcra0rekfgq4as2qfud70ru0j5/zabilexe.pdf
    • https://malashealthcare.com/userfiles/files/nupusoxijurupuxel.pdf
    • http://szpk.hu/_user/file/32778324421.pdf
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/kubajukogepipemot.pdf
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d016d4889e9---zenonagorakezaveje.pdf
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095749a17725---25512633312.pdf
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846fe49e485---60583358857.pdf
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160924b8777a80---memovubomotobuselorutul.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_off0000e8e1.bin
f8f2b78d4a42ecc4efdb0aef0253340830e17e6f620abafcd917e8e12efc5f5a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8E1 17220 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011614.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11614 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012e2b.bin
abe3626c5e8275adbba0071310dc8cd336db4c46424962445233953e8b2593b4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E2B 10392 bytes