Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8af9b2f5bd2cfd8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-07-15 09:45:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: c63653ccd5951b0925bee4caa92527af SHA-1: 01dfb1404d81896db6011e39b26166373f1dc50d SHA-256: d8af9b2f5bd2cfd8ca014b35a05657e80c9d6b3de2e99880fd59a21fbe362cdd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to other PDFs hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://nhatngudongkinh.com/upload/ckupload/files/fimoxomenaliburogi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ucity69.com/clients/861769/File/29155997058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tbld66qhoc88lp58hftjuu30ul/rudobesukodurujaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078998bbdc0e---nimukofovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32d11fb1ee51d680b5757b85053ac395/93091149208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vava35kr148v49rv33i33jclrj/jufevejole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkojicin.cz/userfiles/file/20736111991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2acontractor.it/images/file/40828621536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c93307d9296---kuribenalowakiseleri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e63bee7b4f---bazimuvazebuzabijupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tencanpowder.com/d/files/levonaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b82fdc6eccd---fijoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62a6ca4940c6cb8095e3b6f0ad5d3374/74378040373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ildongwire.com/userfiles/file/33211270804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seednseed.com/admin/fckfiles/file/guxiperoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1jqs3n4jpr55pcbo62st5oufm6/82512409075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avondale61.com/clients/e/e2/e25739fb73bf6f2fbed92e75d980d6c5/File/mexude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martybermanassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c4f1fb0147610fdcbc8c3f935918383/97097750539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9s60mfr7bpn7clrg411tbjoa8c/97658966416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q1od4og5akpnthspqvscf5cg22/jesefuwemozajigepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ebaa9cac600e3bc501be9be33a3d04c/fujiteviwovademabizonel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n1dpf6radpfuluj4nq6a7rs3qh/maxugiweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aae1417171---52415189350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovacsoltvaskerites.hu/images/file/23533073333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/salifikozupewufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=amiibo+download+for+androidPDF 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_off0000f7c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7C1 16508 bytes
SHA-256: 9bef897390f9c77d9f44fed1d5645f9fd31b2c2beff3539505543df779360502
font_01_sfnt_off0001229f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1229F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013ab6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AB6 10324 bytes
SHA-256: 4e373dfabbb0064aa0ae535bf8cbc5554b2c1dfcb7d7e48024eb52ce24c99fe4