Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8c54006040428a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-08-27 22:49:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: a197c8d1c02d85e3c95a2dab14cb46b3 SHA-1: b858ff5133d0d67446f39d52f41adf9aa6d97694 SHA-256: d8c54006040428a73a358558181e6547479de4d34b3019cc613535463ef78792
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the detection names strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://obasekiestates.com/UserFiles/file/didisovukedofulugo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a70768607---84016800378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyotiacademicpress.org/uploads/file/84685158673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/upload/save_image/files/93585491962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjbtrh.com/files/pic/file/74331355281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03f9157adffa705e0712b7cc120b6fbe/32116890535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranch.pl/files/file/8859104587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cipetbhopal.com/webimg/files/97471824987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amghanoi.com/images/ckeditor/files/takorafitut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/18170947031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ongxoanhdpe.vn/upload/files/85331620026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1qjd.com/upload/files/2021-06-25-00-21-05-UzCWL3OO.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.novosib-sport.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/runesevukaroxita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99d3f06cbaa49ff69fff0eb9509c6da6/3256458297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bpabv.nl/uploadfiles/file/wewimebidogarosonuwolebak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/77228181523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiuyutv.com/userfiles/files/20210820114943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22defom4q5p11n6q439ei87opm/kijuwariselezelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sintellect.ru/Repository/file/kotejilemaloradigabon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtcguild.org/clients/80367/File/83982056814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0779d553547ed9348f0ab1bc31ca40f/wuzuvasukepukevuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porpora.info/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///63857811135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/53096298448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=sf+600+army+examplePDF 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_off0000bf89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF89 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 07c266daa8016d455b4ec8993e6c04389e2ecbf4068e35561be0a7e468dc1c78
font_01_sfnt_off0000d793.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD793 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000efa5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFA5 16676 bytes
SHA-256: d560afb9b12b4994794c4c8eba6b02f65b7cd67fcf09d4125e0f9adf5c32e45d