Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8aaf5877f88e74b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-10-10 15:18:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 946f117c7f3a82c4332d157036628ebe SHA-1: 60ef8aa321d7f0a599c2b05c9fb90fd2ed55a121 SHA-256: d8aaf5877f88e74b2c2dc9380f0a06ab660758d69a8007ae4207b0989303e927
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to link farms on disposable or compromised hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The heuristic firings related to link farms and compromised CMS uploads further support this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cute+jokes+to+say+to+a+girl PDF link annotation
    • https://pasarangroup2.com/contents/files/wimiwijonixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xboxheerlen.nl/userfiles/file/81131173120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adrfarysz.pl/userfiles/file/pekolakexezezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourmoneyyourbank.com/uploads/File/37694351716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shindah.com/images/ckeditor_img/files/jitomapiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baigiangtoanhoc.com/upload/files/22861993943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolavalerio.it/userfiles/files/lojene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altinhediyeler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/gemesaresivufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://academiapreprod.riportico.com/userfiles/files/vumovefiwigap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hung168.tw/UserFiles/files/87278124953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundaidongdo3s.com/images/files/gutavatuwomitozale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavicchurchmississauga.com/fck_upload/file/37336010027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapalishakti.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zibabokedexepetoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614256e45f758---55029495295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gvj6ja0je4vrq5lua254g67vj8/padidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studionegro.net/userfiles/files/mekefopakexaromono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-baze.lv/images/site/file/tokuvoridixalagepirefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68ffb8108b76c683d5940344d4b33f58/muxonuwanifefinezanipuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radekslodkiewicz.pl/files/file/2758481803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142e1913809a---15573474475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lednotice.com/userData/board/file/karodubotefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kinizsibank.inweb.hu/_user/file/92111767587.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_off0000d8d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8D3 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 4f7941c2590d83c25c2d8988dda0d2bc0a5fc4ff9b8592efb1d4d199ec3ff5fa
font_01_sfnt_off0000f16b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF16B 19528 bytes
SHA-256: c1e84cfe78bf2767df62223e9ff50b2462cab37a97ed3bb39bcbfbd895010d28
font_02_sfnt_off000123de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123DE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1