Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8a56e938e82283d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-07-10 07:02:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 04fb8ad1355894647628e2fb2c77bf5a SHA-1: f070743c7877826aa424b89e6855a587a00ad3b6 SHA-256: f8a56e938e82283d09ae09afbe78b5c808a267763cbf21a028a15f863c037a91
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis point to a malicious link distribution pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://dataction.org/demo/dataction/media/84371058491.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2h1vuvqcts4sk1ig5s5nhlu8us/80939412847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloverdiamond.com/file/nolakesuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/16441025188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiaangkorhomestay.com/userfiles/file/nogovakipidis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hamasataccessories.com/userfiles/files/gesun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinag7furniture.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/zafulibotixukalokix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebeccafantarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/jaxeziligenivoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pleasanthillpchurch.com/clients/5/55/55aa087cacc886b2254ddcc242c0699b/File/39414485088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160887b8764601---61590020058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/bivam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northernillumination.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61685109977be868feef0ee743fa712e/podazudadukedijuruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b02d7dccc8---sipumukefosedumaxixixax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8af59oredod43k93i845qdce90/59126614602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peoriamayorprayerevent.com/clients/1/16/166e3f524b51ec168ebfd48f86188a1d/File/93572427752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160800fd38fdae---tefanivag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/80412534070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f51657d0ae---nubor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/386a68c6d792a977d6e451de189e1bb2/visibiriwep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beateromer.com/bilder/file/liwigusofugagoluper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cherryontop.pl/upload/fotki/file/muzube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signika.pl/Upload/file/31430664271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sf445r6p9qlgtsgsntdsenhpp0/jidek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4b7595043e---90430454291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6863f1b88f---86812703881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=bring+past+simple+and+participlePDF 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_off0000c8b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8B6 16308 bytes
SHA-256: ff11c09028aac732b4b4566328d2475dc54dc001a92da6455dbe257379a388cd
font_01_sfnt_off0000f32f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF32F 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 931ed9bca9a10ad1800ddffcec82f5cfd608894cc4fb9965a3925d4ad83ca232
font_02_sfnt_off00010bd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BD1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1