Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df8bd3717a6fa55a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-10-07 17:20:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 36e97abd83b074ed9c44fcb46ad92551 SHA-1: 3ca2b881bc384c1fca6c955b0e14682d3a2a2dc2 SHA-256: df8bd3717a6fa55aaf0b3424dd3a579ac0e84f3ec0a85d545906ae06c2b98511
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links and the nature of the PDF heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 https://gaadalagi.com/contents/files/39494624558.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://elskenecologie.nl/files/4381325693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134a968e32b6---16167192929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615cc21d1633a---wawapixidomafigaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matagujrischool.com/admin/imagetemp1/file/44526310772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salt17.com/userfiles/files/jirupofokor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/wegabelobarimuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15881588.com/ckupload/files/64642145835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615a4fca68a9f---pojimutadud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loadcell.vn/Images_upload/files/26227937189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jkbprivateiti.com/userfiles/file/14991006697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/pekagozadavonol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/gajajas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615e2e4553968---givapipanuzaloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengyaweb.com/uploadfile/file/2021092219502684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driscollandgibson.com/images/edit_images/file/22317369526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manvilastrust-org.bvirani.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vijomavupamogel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fontan-montag.ru/img/upload/54051971850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/43825268505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marleenjansen.nl/images/uploadfiles/dejesan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alessandrobelleseveterinario.eu/userfiles/files/60621680701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fetogram.ir/images/upload/files/42300073541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615a5d01cdcaf---66948162038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngonluathan.vn/images/ckeditor/files/livulupulifotep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=define+deviance+and+crimePDF 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_off0000ec71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC71 10272 bytes
SHA-256: 5c52676c02dd2e97cee3c077b4d520448414da6b6c154ef8953581c7f30b1093
font_01_sfnt_off00010389.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10389 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011b9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B9B 19908 bytes
SHA-256: 07b26e889ae5bf21749f2a93d01cc275e7aaea6cd4c30070d1d9c185a358fd04