Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dec8fbf644d8deae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 05:59:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 3567708bf94bc5b91abbd5b58373eef6 SHA-1: 5af4009445e7e6712b82da031930a00186843035 SHA-256: dec8fbf644d8deae8206b6161e2277ca5a6d1e39077f91be9cfc7f8e58d0f271
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, a common tactic for distributing malware or conducting phishing attacks. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs clearly show a pattern of redirecting users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://asfalon.com/__files/file/xatisimufexinusufexonetuw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611e94791b79b---ridolivilutaguxitubukol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c415b3504ec---51263573049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brlairport.com/images/file/50400277407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161037e23c882d---27042392856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tabouligrill.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24414863952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4467fa31413b2b7b4d82f9abe9f244d8/15022519949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15bf1faa3b9dfbbd86dc54ff518b6a80/50405137467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ddaf69e063f98c742e762fb60f4bf0d/dixasuwuduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9dec210a02544c1967c02973fa56035/9386363491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c29fb6ecacc---10225666310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hocaukhudothithanhphogiaoluu.com/asset/site/files/30087967299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewaves.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/arnhv0e829uk8kugpuiclt15uf/94928017691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608704c1b8af0---lagipowefafisatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecilingirler.com/resimler/files/98625408313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vencedor.coop/images/admin/file/42221652254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbezcba9a5aggb3j.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52801872861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fdf889bfb20---luxipogirojas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/22273582438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071bc4a445cc---zodasoxikatisutovugifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611a11b092dda---21722534954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyc.cz/pictures/clanky/files/vesawewepefarovulexopewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpiecznamlodosc.org/files/file/30552757310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alansglobalservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79668325703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sys-svinding.dk/userfiles/file/suzopafetokopetikux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=finding+area+of+quadrilaterals+worksheet+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_off0000b819.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB819 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d02b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD02B 14532 bytes
SHA-256: e430b0a90afdc9609cfa2a98f241479377763d0b568a67ccd6b56b35b33e0ac8
font_02_sfnt_off0000f434.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF434 11176 bytes
SHA-256: 9026043dbecc90d6f44607c9c2ed6ad41d21fb0b180afb97a839c3e073a9ce73