Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8985f1e6182b04d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-12 06:47:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 823440823fa1480a1cd42975a35e6a03 SHA-1: 4e67270448149347c3d1ace8619c373349cf0de2 SHA-256: f8985f1e6182b04d8f4b937dae663438481c79501ea09d0f5bd47f173815e003
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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 http://globalnetworks.de/www.galabau-poscher.de/main/preview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67070536306.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613429ccda916---30498093516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirpub.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51679607953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwalabamaave.com/uploads/files/diruvewiwudogililuvogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at1apigroup3.com/contents/files/bixivijamokibaxaseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.cn/upfiles/2109080428293776980m7rc5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sb0pvpa95bfrmq27p3coq79ct7/jamonome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-junghan.com/userData/board/file/ruwajetajiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ag04j3reidmdn6n1a7627vaiek/4003610032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.funes.gob.ar/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dotigafibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horizontire.com/userfiles/file/92363952102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astmasme.com/userData/board/file/40566792036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiari-web.com/ckfinder/optimist/files/71989670547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://355353.ru/userfiles/file/radubasapaluvin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///vokox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altaamir.ipixpms.com/Rapport/public/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72305217946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161342b13408cb---dilafesuvum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovec.bg/root/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46186246991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ville-dammarie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jawofelifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tetrafluoro.com/upload/files/tulefevipudob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akilanews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45185648797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ryouhurt.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/latebafajojusepanikirevup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://darkoyunpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/rubarekujetudaful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=best+bird+call+app+for+androidPDF 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_off0000dbce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBCE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3E0 17244 bytes
SHA-256: acf45a0c3b3bda3810388cbffe8172e2153a206d5760498a030acf52800c3618
font_02_sfnt_off000120f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120F9 10804 bytes
SHA-256: ba38f6ff86138f7b6553a773bffe0bb8f7c28836f51f7177628a0d934d57cfaa