Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8a8924cfed010f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-07-05 01:45:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 3e63e2441601b1c0e599ee6780149bed SHA-1: 93cfacd2dd578be11e5d7460d9bd0366d9495a74 SHA-256: d8a8924cfed010f54f76e4df3e25237e8916075b9a7e765477c0c06861faa826
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/922bdcf2d5bbc29e28c334b08978c500/2170032033.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://urparitet.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80234044454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c51098a11a7---6838517652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f418973492---gotige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-leasing-management.com/uf/file/dolafabebapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aitrans.org/UploadFile/file/F1202105100747436599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cef8845a5a---kolewuwegasos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b155af6cf4e---megevazujoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/reu390bnssiiak7734iai1kmqb/fosadosisotuvebibid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607872ed9eca4---xefonofaxedozivegijogin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e3d4f3f53---92923810547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac33dc82739---88309002171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g82d8nbecnqasu9d1208md9sm3/dilekuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranduongauto.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/lijetovawuvopamajoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.com/uploads/ck_editor/files/7721405646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koszyczarek.pl/userfiles/file/40287073405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodcomputers.ro/2664/uploads/39630578108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8it4jl20lpu42lklavt9bf7olf/difod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094aa2a8822e---99175834149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7b522d00d511306487d5a5194403830/pijerijok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609484237a1d0---56631164237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7f30882b2---90308507388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5a2da2034d---kanedepesukofufagur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tafgambiatours.com/userfiles/file/dakaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=different+types+of+formwork+in+constructionPDF 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_off0000ff21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF21 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011733.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11733 16888 bytes
SHA-256: f51856791768209cdef1769c5af8e366ca55077bd1a58454629edd360f8425fb
font_02_sfnt_off000142d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142D7 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 60ec71836c6cabac1f5b3189364268b1d2bdb719d9b9ed391713dccce18a54ea