Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8601729ad778c2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-06-29 02:21:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 49af168f25a04b369ed0c4445dffa4f3 SHA-1: c715e6197d0063e78b0bd2df843f071b2bdc4155 SHA-256: d8601729ad778c2dcc43a1a999e4964db8d8f7564aec371d0c32098f0892d11a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+diamond+and+pearl+play+online PDF link annotation
    • http://notariocprietoa.com/notaria/documentos/files/deligusomuvojav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd4f8411d0d086ed8e183603e70fe602/sagelowix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malashealthcare.com/userfiles/files/dudutawapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d29651224f7---wonunosenesubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunnysolutions.it/uploads/assets/file/xeguvuribunaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://legalinet.eu/userfiles/files/5647188512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/88768452990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/facacf43ad98c6d843d84764ca389503/17316079652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813518b215a---kuduvizililivapovanola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf8ecc39296---fexasamovunoxileropej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f2619bbfa7---jodiwodisemezorule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8143512fe6817bf54e8e9fa31f4aedd/37080386434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stancijanegrin.com/UserFiles/files/vinitokoxobewamusafib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2395acc165---wakuromowenunog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f24bb0de6---22010047832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b32cb69cc6d---81280691927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160904e7f2c3c0---jexakerupimufavifovuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d3239c6c3f---noged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/keno1e802laegd7d6tu9m8c9u6/nedakivaber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.visitrwanda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/073ed43fe4356e90ac129f512348066a/kabar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ttnthailand.com/upload/userfile/files/86057959494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609981a48480b---mururogitozewebizuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/guzogajiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://normel.org/files/upload/file/89969864667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ecc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECC9 10492 bytes
SHA-256: a946bdfb988370c959ae2e533213951b19a70f750e69be4d1d3a81aa71fb7589
font_01_sfnt_off00010492.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10492 16788 bytes
SHA-256: ef64eb12b1646b77c256fb557b454b713a9aa39fdec1c304d4051327fec5cb4a
font_02_sfnt_off00012fa8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FA8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1