Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8f3803a44ea809b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 04:18:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 27d6fd3e71f4777e1a6c93737ee7149d SHA-1: c528595dbb02dff1f51f149fcc63c74831058cc4 SHA-256: d8f3803a44ea809b07cdadab9d5491520c26487646c6734696a750cb89005bb3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest a coordinated effort to distribute phishing lures or malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 https://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=brother+kodaline+piano+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb64ae887cb---melemefobif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea8b42401b---jomabixotuketigas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79ffe12f33ba6f663acd71f9417e23bc/wuxovugedusotibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16108ab8cb5ce7---34597454886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hublihorse.com/uploads/userfiles/files/witukebib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16a3e17c93b02f113ac0f64d63c8ab02/vijezidamajajisojepem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcsm62.org/uploads/news/file/30125369453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapa-technika.cz/UserFiles/File/jukobulamuvave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eaa88d27af---6403676755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahia-group.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48063878952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intrinhgia.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/3017598452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/djti9a88fg6ge5tntulrpd0n97/wazowafasanotesudevawix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607925cde9641---28055998854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612a51937212c---duwebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.masozilina.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/futazexufabalelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8663c0d685---40925262748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da2d2399c891b9f18bba70a842b9162d/32411390210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/55428582545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmountvernon.com/uploads/files/nakifowemajokuluxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1ee4b7ba7293a498109ca01f896c3bf/nekajinulavirokibaxuzeres.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoaisonland.vn/upload/files/61282694071.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_off0000e0d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0D2 18512 bytes
SHA-256: c3447a3f0500b690e4304da572ac76d377607c9e26aa74a4866b3896d4a9c4a4
font_01_sfnt_off00011189.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11189 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000129a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129A0 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 63727a9780887c2d0843c0fa1806194cabe874b1cace90dde2c4457934b2f28d

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