Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8dfa0dddb0e3cfc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-08-15 08:27:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 1b75ea299dd163fce132bc0b2b576156 SHA-1: 690e7065f152a2b00f71c988faae792401bd7012 SHA-256: f8dfa0dddb0e3cfc7b5a2da39ec80fc8045925611bf6b9c1b6a0adf2d9172e6d
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 uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95, and an ML classifier also flagged it as malicious. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to external sites through a deceptive document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f05e01b41e324e752b1a9ea5ebfbe8f/wusuvo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t60jqfn5php79udhiq2spmurpa/59913599553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lsv-wittlage.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79436017138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spc1991.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45054209714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indovinandoilmondo.it/themes/userfiles//files/mumisogixapiwetubabadag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwferrellpkwy.com/uploads/files/75097962049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aravlicraft.com/cmsCart//upload/file/47509004287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lienlacanien.com/img_pages/file/86645425675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delshadian.com/public/userfiles/file/winekizodagadaxelesumaken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamcc.com/UserFiles/files/getubalagalejetup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b9aef0b65---ginuzanobagig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086d70286678---lapavon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080831e9cdb3---fobosezelusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b4a983bef---kewibafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2829bd3eb3---mepevamaniju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kahounova.cz/userfiles/file/jetiditasij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/tabezopuwexugexovovav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lee-trading.tw/archive/upload/files/ligog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9000cc4b34---53851433307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vervesimuhub.com/userfiles/file/33842714960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastera-mix.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/forexejara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safarang.com/basefile/files/kajapexufividunipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hifi-markt.eu/kunden/kronhardt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14630921666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=nombre+art%C3%ADstico+de+reginald+kenneth+dwight+codyPDF 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_off0000e2a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2A8 18012 bytes
SHA-256: f88a11134b60e21918349cb6bc88ca378ecfd11206d15dd4a00ca31a01802550
font_01_sfnt_off00011098.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11098 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000128af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128AF 11288 bytes
SHA-256: b3e60caf3edbfd4116903b981b95b45fac9c2948c138aaa80d5c72071f68360b