Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de8a498101c8a884…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 00:20:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 382b2428d243503030ee112f6bdbeac4 SHA-1: 6ddc28fd05ed49ff9ebfe1d03bc765c569d572f4 SHA-256: de8a498101c8a8845cbeb570a88d8dda46317d35a6b1109a4881d8abd9920353
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains, suggesting a link farm designed to trick users into downloading files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9925

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://tortsurprise.ru/upload/redactor/files/jafotar.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://davidfauquemberg.com/home/fauquemb/david/bbdg_site/userfiles/file/79306338926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatamorgana.fr/uploads/assets/file/17291538426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eedb57a3f1d79f7e842961451368b1ba/vejajiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.servicioscalibrados.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b95e41e94902db8c9d501db05dd572ae/31767243625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--pssa17sw71b.tw/upimages/files/46966179972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aaccb29826fa65043b4ef86155557fc3/xugevugusefuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/376a7fb582ff2db5f5112c132f8eb96f/rimixuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/3674908032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saharun.org/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42704676774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a7c5383278---97080661700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fpdss4kc2vmcpufgmt8tnqu93m/1283364505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestuby.com/userfiles/file/28947865709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recko.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kovepimolosume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beveragesgs.com/userfiles/file/nozewug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newtech-utm.pl/userfiles/file/wobidazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://economiadecomunion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56235868358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/520d7f97f73aaf56dd1fd9c9506c6d35/26423761065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a00ni7tun0mal1lsknqc8f4v9n/60665718024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avgdesign.com/userfiles/file/binirimimimexadorul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiwatopup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9843950080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3655210677---zuvupidobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084751833330---68630381750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque.ville.deux-montagnes.qc.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55491299380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wine-paraphernalia.com/files/winep/_repo/file/buwadibaxiwugexuweburog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbc.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/debozikozawofifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=jioswitch+app+download+apkPDF 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_off0000df74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF74 17240 bytes
SHA-256: 947c6d4a3f4169a7485b251f4c2d8f561d4ea5a0ba604e10aa3c05d076b294ea
font_01_sfnt_off00010bcb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BCB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000123e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123E2 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 29ed56ae3eb6d7fd05dc4240083d6c857dd539ac13bf5a466ea81109eeff9803