Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de8076abced2f304…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-08-20 00:02:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 0c3e26006d5b5fefafe673e266d4743f SHA-1: 4c6698fc6d03ba034f4f1831d926a3b4d25952b0 SHA-256: de8076abced2f30424a5122d72fb6061d616f4fe3ca0a3741086cbaf082995f4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, designed to lure users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://acrclubinversores.com/files/galeria/files/demugog.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/94933005184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/38957729261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b167aac5ab6---geduselusek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drukarnia-warszawa.pl/pliki/file/81221879786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cga82.com/admin/File/93239394094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennedy-jackson.com/clients/f/f7/f78508644b517540cdb1549d93860f53/File/79582303801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37031eeb51fa954c8a8823fa93610bea/21047705894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.greenbriarpropmgmt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d402b9c1eb6e541592d87d01cfade25/85149536036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincentpopetutoring.com/clients/d/dd/dd6b7bcf94cac99d3bed97cf8166637b/File/fexawipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parfumerieindex.nl/images/uploads/rifegaxulisedarowofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nrfalg8p5ajgfuqh42640m53sv/95487232853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9d7567c5a3---37583848781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyldkj.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/8797856491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2021367a00---25402898912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staresecurity.com/userfiles/file/mevurixigisupam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flywings.sk/UserFiles/file/85544420841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7evgumdala8vgeu1tdtl9tddk5/79717779424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/lonomizoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ampletrekking.com/userfiles/file/12593092118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-clean.com/user_img/files/41658428633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didocrosby.com/imagenes/file/60918486387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7197d2dac7ebbb30c4440b06baa80dc3/16546382288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkinshigh1988.com/clients/75739/File/sekawubutabetipugosarim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=bossa+nova+jazz+guitar+pdfPDF 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_off0000e04d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE04D 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 58b158fc76f58b941b811f72aa3c1c1fbbaeee99ca0d45a2189133713c02bd23
font_01_sfnt_off0000f98c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF98C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001119e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1119E 18172 bytes
SHA-256: 5a962e8279f1da461a061ad192714f6502d92bdbcfb53bea36e04634dfdcadc9