Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8aaafeeb4847a9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.9 KB Created: 2021-06-26 07:41:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: ceefc763e4b2c5bb474eeac3948d2363 SHA-1: 3458c90ea73c046edeca3eafb805a2483abcb5b2 SHA-256: f8aaafeeb4847a9f10c42691b281c182aebeeface145fde815307709d813f16d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of external URIs and link farms points towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9705

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=anime+fighting+simulator+next+update+release+date PDF link annotation
    • http://rydelko.pl/userfiles/file/87375386612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songhandiban.com/uploadfile/file/2021062004201873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvugiayphep.net/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/50202141607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elitelawnsolutions.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8b6j8q00q8mppc31h244mcnrn/jelifuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ec6621755b---sesawitutapijob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitegenerale.tn/userfiles/file/lawifafamiragopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091b98a4dfb6---kolurokedetaveni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/525eb9b9ab401dea37be9b4dc770a798/715758454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a8989ffa3---6862081612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a31421709b7---logudiwufibotuwapojubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5adc5d9ffb---13305082743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/59704671757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085cb962835c---vakara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hydro-tg.pro/upload/file/91471885736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsl-trans.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wewopiderurufesotibeloxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4b2d6b2cac---31237254570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3c5ba1f2a1---pulugupinoloroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a699c36e14b---65639997242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stillwaiting.org/userfiles/file/folenegebutazagebed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49bdb6ca6146a2a854a1031653652f47/sarubajoriniva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81e53b2eca2e3184e521ff0dee3424d8/futemobifumidenanom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0a29f86883---71568254727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6f96f710e7---51943386599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de76ef9b760ee71c99825e9e09032399/72950967717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d861cd1d10---28990286389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tfhsa528ld4svauh1cv23f6pai/sisezuxudetale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e969c7c1743a9eafddd0a5b7756e91cd/31914604739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otoozevran.com/resimler/files/zuludilekakugekumaninebe.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fa1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA1F 11128 bytes
SHA-256: ac6a18954c17f9d42357f699fbf4ec140061664d6daf374467f3f97ea11e54e5
font_01_sfnt_off000113b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113B6 19304 bytes
SHA-256: 80e154a953a68064b326952a93529792ffd9dc29a842577caa78cf9aebc602ec
font_02_sfnt_off00013336.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13336 17836 bytes
SHA-256: 1e20f6845e964f133c04f002f997693d7ada932a5b8c8d3123268dd4ce1db069
font_03_sfnt_off0001610f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1610F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1