Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0a8ae9be45bc840…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 08:33:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 299b37c5f5c3c2a45e2805000974c2b1 SHA-1: 6e5428a1d6cdf1466615da7fec87a3f65569deee SHA-256: f0a8ae9be45bc8403ad310c4c91c7c212713811076c1f9790c91bb05d572bbaa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to potentially compromised WordPress upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or trojan payload delivery. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=le+chapelet+de+la+divine+mis%C3%A9ricorde+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/file/68121451848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wjvanderheidedienstverlening.nl/uploads/file/kazitivexavebos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uvk8nerkda84n6qd9530t2ia64/74384864470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca0174bb2a9---38535316770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9da97bef46---xobivobem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://growlink.biz/userfiles/file/22405228434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coluer.ir/documents/file/8582505340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2f8acbb4ca---18491154769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aqsclimited.com/EditorImages/file/36792067595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3ed90dfb6695536baa4e65a5e3bad0b/91330295240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btsis.com/upload/ckfinder/files/2071707909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/36005652052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0486a02172---6698814126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobraukraina.org/sites/all/sites/dobraukraina.org/files/25141955633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/pezatizovapapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff9f03a422e3a86486a67e736c9c41bf/71361496724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u23m95huqhmlanbfqse8ncdmc3/futidut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fced09c8280---13883448061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a90174771e---wopatopaxikizafigatune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o2rllql29nqk2513oblpn1buu5/fefatowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellarp.com/userfiles/files/gozotojubojoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jikaramen.com/uploads/files/79258772753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungwoneng.com/upfile_editor/2021/files/zatugalozirave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e18d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE18D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9A4 11064 bytes
SHA-256: c12e09d0e5f5a8c678c2a7dbe0db2767c2b19298b8e7f59e0ce26fc8fa8e522e
font_02_sfnt_off000112e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112E9 19108 bytes
SHA-256: 04491ac0869f5af554c9214ac01d316745a96b296a580226b07b4d9d41978d5a