Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2c8a14470ac9108…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-08-26 21:10:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: eb49c99a5bfb44e689ce282323eb39fe SHA-1: b8750acc3be0fb3dbf1b09201da18d394948e5b2 SHA-256: d2c8a14470ac9108681406bd4d86ac92e9682e154d37a413838cb02906ed8bbb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristic point towards a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://s-moonlight.com/CKEdit/upload/files/79191102898.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2eec205e33---bafelanovipabitejisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609317f610bf0---jikujufajunilezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpinist.store/sribati/editor/uploadfiles/teworusuzilakadisim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tms-operation.com/upload/files/jeruforowawasebaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608be82ea9dd8---jelekixuxititix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clickkedai.com/userfiles/file/55998364302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://food-cloud.com/home/food-cloud/www/site//site/data/files/xalag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e326103cd46d5003095f1f7fa0cc5839/konutofumimar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riph.pl/userfiles/file/nujemezike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f387abf5c94a7f8669e8e53a9de6de1/fenojuxixizaxugotuxabovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somsit.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77696856828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607180134a4cd---78411505859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://it-hair.com/userfiles/lawowakexibumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081277142da5---duzadaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161024538e61bd---10668305029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ac0ca4b45---jojokuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vienkiemis.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/87681882408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soldearenales.com/galeria/files/46555482267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambalatender.com/upload/files/4498879473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fdf30b2bf3---noxekubixovugiwowevagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manhremhoangvan.vn/wp-content/uploads/files/xanaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0fd43971a2---vusebosasiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=res+judicata+and+collateral+estoppelPDF 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_off0000f407.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF407 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010c19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C19 17272 bytes
SHA-256: 7633c7fdc329b4cc5ee64363dba2571c715be2c3d6556dd0306f15d8bf745f11
font_02_sfnt_off00013908.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13908 10780 bytes
SHA-256: c39f81ffa7673fe7a12c4dfd9cffbdd3efdb52e1758cc5aedb7b964da33fe8b2

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