Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8260699d5201770…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-07-17 07:50:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: caeae10531be829777ab451655b222af SHA-1: 1612fc7a95b94a0b64cd22a09d09d8efab5e4841 SHA-256: d8260699d5201770c71307c45606776f4964add2b3418cf0da40ab83c273e89d
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The PDF contains a link farm hosted on disposable domains, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable due to encoding, but the heuristics point to a lure mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://aite-materials.com/upfiles/file/vawomatovi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ppuhperspektywa.pl/files/edytor/file/23356378522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5e57614ba6---46913094806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/87633247153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27785c33872e816c4337f3fbe661ae29/60822396442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a660050ff079c42c5975f1cf34f310c/22447682201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipnjl.com/userfiles/files/wifaregewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b65ebe695c9fb982836c0af50648c280/lovufaxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f0cdc2a9e7---42915740013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160efdc1dc3bf4---14188017195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centronegozi.com/public/suwubatuwanaxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4u8ep8dof225r6658n7s89p9ti/radakerolazizovud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v28ft9cth7uh23ehmotgurvbno/49383602734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/bukaxivomavazujimiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2bet.net/contents//files/pezaxuzetudutaximadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090dd0ec4975---37791452289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dab978785ab---56629447782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a975888dcbe---xasosedaxugisagerilazedat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseenadventure.com/userfiles/file/zajisefugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebeaute.fr/userfiles/file/59506656507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amidoux-peintures.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41186817520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160749f58bfeb5---sexunipetumedebojujobumux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelmitrutarija.com/uploaded/files/dawevipirid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c693de3ce2595da12ce3c614a67c6e83/gaxunaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=nelson+geography+7+pdf+freePDF 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_off0000f8bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8BC 10728 bytes
SHA-256: fe9c329102ef4db0e4d4fa2c246811a4bb668e1b964b2d54433235e6ed2a56df
font_01_sfnt_off00011130.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11130 17692 bytes
SHA-256: 3b0ee2c10430cd1997a552e989ca92d47ea55837b1e2ca7fd1cbf9c7fb402ec8
font_02_sfnt_off00013f6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F6A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1