Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8a6448ab7fc34f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-07-08 12:17:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: dd2fc28c24b73c4e2ff2984ee055894d SHA-1: f82bc49642cb5459dc007189fa9458eff132aac6 SHA-256: f8a6448ab7fc34f19d785a19e36bddbfe21787d25297d2bfb47c6b6fb5c576df
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics suggest this is a phishing or malware distribution attempt, with ClamAV specifically identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are strongly indicative of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=probability+density+function+types
    • http://konsultacjenaukowe.eu/Upload/file/vozababodavexukor.pdf
    • http://luckdidea.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/sumig.pdf
    • https://agentcctv.com/userfiles/file/xufapibe.pdf
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/514941c76db3c0dc2acc75cefa971750/97012647683.pdf
    • https://bodegoncriollo.com/userfiles/file/jokiwapadogozi.pdf
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8469480f91---resilaxazok.pdf
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32507fea12eba9626573cbbfec388846/9285650200.pdf
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18ce5416cb27740b21e039f57c0ff184/47372574678.pdf
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfed1ed188d---rodotemugupegufofebo.pdf
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/276b5b53d08091d4b0fd28dfe5082972/32236565313.pdf
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/livula.pdf
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0e3ea60a67cfce828830916ad737001/1764196040.pdf
    • http://kaitosushisb.com/uploads/files/5885163650.pdf
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2ce240a88e---92440502754.pdf
    • http://mrpokedb.com/uploads/files/78643027771.pdf
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/newoxedimemofira.pdf
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf437986993---lopujulituvupevavivuratum.pdf
    • https://vietfun.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4o4e14bu6167baeu768u6rnacb/kudotilaxepuronunuv.pdf
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a080262ef43---fewuvamezaj.pdf
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/mubovixefidepiko.pdf
    • https://atl-50.com/files/file/kitukubebewi.pdf
    • https://dotcomtravelegypt.com/userfiles/files/56698403336.pdf
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab932038df0---79758198772.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b721.bin
b4d68d1226d2816075933808fdc2c38fae19d7239ca9b316ccda2fd6c821633d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB721 10968 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d087.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD087 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e899.bin
046b56be638b4d282a4a2c90c1c899d78df51407cfbe2f368ddf8183447365aa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE899 15640 bytes