Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8a5e0a230751995…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-10 11:34:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c29fa29c2917f6e2a0b5dcedc176446a SHA-1: 74d0910e5f760d389f73e1dcff9b214fa61c3915 SHA-256: d8a5e0a230751995f6b20a37b3e98668bbb4865e733cc99a8c318ed58931f154
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to disposable or compromised domains, forming a link farm designed to redirect users. The heuristic 'SE_URGENCY_LURE' suggests the document may contain deceptive language to prompt immediate action, further supporting a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://onthebroadway.com/CPD/adminpanel/upload/file/nogetuxaf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://poliinc.com/upload/files/piwuneturafozerisoborazad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tachikawa-derma.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98413048111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hferrynetworks.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210908_A9A2BE18DAF24ADE.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thinkglobalcompliance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12509973371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mybed.tw/uploads/files/202109050324285269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syarmarka.ru/userfiles/files/bagaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ab19e72397---900832714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbbg1ddpkdc.xn--j1amh/uploads/files/sizekozep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pre-www.bridge-college.com/uploaded/ckeditor/files/17395124775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdjuchuan.com/upload/files/40309147655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desco.scp.hr/files/fakebowevujimedudij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fazekaskozpont.hu/images/upload/file/77433432869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mhinflatable.com/upload/file/monakigamanexiniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137c2784c507---desulewijovezitejakara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwninemile.com/uploads/files/48353484991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miyagi.chi-kara.net/Upload/files/50519062569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134df2dbd70f---xipadakuwavib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a85664f8b2---63251859850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventilatoryzlin.cz/images/file/77002508931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chieusangducphat.com/uploads/userfiles/file/fobijuxiwajazujezupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvvc.cz/files/nemabar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://air-separation-supplier.com/d/files/99739924819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apra.pl/files/file/zopaduvezog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwlargo.com/uploads/files/89563980830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=convert+jpg+to+pdf+android+onlinePDF 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_off0000dd9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD9D 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 18c85717bef92a45ff2910e695f1436a5ce411a1b193f873eb40a25ffdf0a957
font_01_sfnt_off0000f62d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF62D 18612 bytes
SHA-256: 7d25ed504fc107ff65190d1007092840b798cbf3884710d75b2d3b0c427b28fa
font_02_sfnt_off000126b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1