Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8e278a9cbcacb5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-06-30 19:51:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a816a89e5ccf058153b30aaf827a764e SHA-1: bec4ffa07987f776ff3490efd29b46aff3e2655c SHA-256: d8e278a9cbcacb5fce709cc165357e5642b9d5edbd0e1d32c17fac9882511177
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, including WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of multiple external URIs and compromised CMS upload links indicates an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=funky+monks+guitar+lesson PDF link annotation
    • https://dursunguney.com/userfiles/files/87048375216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609654ceb05cc---12476702458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa958a5c638---rovover.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0ee09e455---37787017523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajajsports.com/userfiles/file/fufesabesuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db713005c66---82333525618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fh6nksegdjp3lmsbumdrc14vg0/90128450356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd6d5254ccb---wiliselakojerode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ktcz.eu/files/files/saresevizabedirubowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://universal4shipping.net/userfiles/file/61808691177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c58925ee2ac---lojejixujagawakatuzovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dbef034e187260eb86a0ddb2d4285eb/gikiwotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10bb53a495d7568bbb8c83c0501e0b41/18509034452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esrafisek.com/images_upload/files/36590746640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viewcs.com/partner/upload/dextfile/riwamuzubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1b6ae8e887---49535329546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb74c5a710---52128630089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/616re1ufg0b2sste1dt7jcqsgv/37093680973.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_off0000ffb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFB5 17428 bytes
SHA-256: 62654027a015ce4469d9e33182b8449371ef7e714bdcbb4b174fb36b2cf187f9
font_01_sfnt_off00012d02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D02 10732 bytes
SHA-256: b6b9b00c63e22f566d72186def991f994e09da8a619b68b3a31f4916110b200f
font_02_sfnt_off000145b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1