Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc8638f1a12bcbf1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.4 KB Created: 2021-08-15 06:47:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: a7137c4e57dd6d4fe86574e4256eeaf2 SHA-1: d181f03a3a21dd0363a52de787bcf6b5d4b9ad6b SHA-256: dc8638f1a12bcbf16d087dcfc08e2dc9b0f2192636677238ab372365e026b805
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely serving as a distribution point for phishing or malware. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically highlights the nature of these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607008395169e---42732997441.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dcdcfe7a8d2---39193531763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mintaialuminum.com/d/files/pabip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51995df1b882b827dad60a774f861c8d/rigezafepuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hgbs.de/userfiles/file/82182201037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proreferee.ru/uploads/ckfinder/files/19583309518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/pajipipaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f71b455c9bb2d1c5d79a356fe45f50e3/64518916693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kidneytracker.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kexalas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805c15936f4---suwatalalubupop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e46601344fca1280e87e5a9736f2aac2/52470412065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081cdd68d075---nenogogobajabimom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drive4smilesontario.ca/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/57530641380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d21f3fe262048e3522ac19971b56ffbc/wunufamojatipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32867360008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glotecgh.com/upload/editor/file/32045231778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogelaipigeon.com/upload/file/20137357839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c04dca33b288c06bc8d054a5a6613a7/96696117000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agroadvanced.com/app/webroot/newsletters/editor/files/48256249902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annjulieskarpmo.com/userfiles/file/lilolojibavofefupudutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.biz/userfiles/files/93240744642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/rijok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/58004531554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://espaciocultivarte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83902750187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stollerco.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/domosibasapugab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=countries+and+nationalities+worksheet+british+councilPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f250.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF250 10916 bytes
SHA-256: d75c7b03323bdb74e05c276e3f89ebf64ddd1994d3a0e33d1493a1a58329f098
font_01_sfnt_off00010ba3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BA3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000123b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123B5 17032 bytes
SHA-256: b3804b2affd19b3c2d585688d9ef86da2af7775018e0b1933f7cc2b11b78116f
font_03_sfnt_off00015065.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15065 16160 bytes
SHA-256: fadda7c1693c70c0c90e720a76f8d3bfc891e7971881ab04a0e9fc286febbbf1