Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8ae4e1fc0c92440…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 01:32:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e66556270885248450d6b8b34e9b8e60 SHA-1: fe0713b3da51fe3e58b5d1e88061ab241efa06c5 SHA-256: d8ae4e1fc0c924405bba6637a4b4de4e91247e4306faceb2f29ea562002fc2e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal that the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of numerous links, including those with 'utm_term' parameters, suggests an attempt to drive traffic to potentially malicious or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://blissworldbeauty.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/23944757290.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gtp28p0beeimpkfouog5bof78m/26091088101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6s4gbfsnn8poivro4tn4a4dvtl/47222270125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kopdesign.nl/userfiles/file/lisadedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horizontire.com/userfiles/file/bejazegosak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitrine-prof.com/files/40573245200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saipanbooking.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210727_C7BB9BF14240C6D1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ca1f448db8e0236c2344165c9cd415e/dabavifesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabiocaronearchitetto.com/userfiles/files/92794143682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donkaew-furniture.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuguwaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wadsoda.com/UserFiles/File/88976692591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://my-natural-style.net/upload/files/gagisibem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://art-lan.ru/uploads/assets/file/tebamitomubojumoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/434f78559c5da2ca9b9ed43be3826835/soninotiboretilisano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qcfloor.com/userfiles/file/vixazatulosefelegase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://produktybhp.pl/pliki_user/File/34906838140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://silverstonedevelopments.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nanumavafubexopujirok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdjuvmfquerb2eknli3b9bo1dv/87165871919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/48537485235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logtech.cz/foto/Image/file/87035988666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16125544e2bd94---50382122066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertoantoniz.com/resources/original/file/11922783318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6ee5c24526---subatubajosujaregulipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9e8cadfbd5---guxeduneleguwakepupunisan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=example+of+introduction+in+research+paper+pdfPDF 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_off0000e02e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE02E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f840.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF840 18016 bytes
SHA-256: db8ca23298578e736eaac83340a6969d1dad47d9d7ae03570c487bbb202a4a5a
font_02_sfnt_off00012699.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12699 11072 bytes
SHA-256: 2b734fe7667195b3e589323f1879b1fc092b70313e59d4ee5f7eb11efe109f08