Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 008cfaee045e501a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.5 KB Created: 2021-06-27 15:00:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 1aa86837e4a6112d5bff9d8a7d25b31d SHA-1: a6c8323151e0b9104031110b9b2774e336171485 SHA-256: 008cfaee045e501a855e86a99e1897bfee55a56ab9ab889913acc2e48e65398e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of many external URIs indicates an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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 https://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=5e+protection+from+evil PDF link annotation
    • https://ideylia.fr/uploads/file/61149996614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608817b28370e---17823490900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68fe1c3530b4593a97db4d41ed2e661e/bejuravebefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/52507565594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webplease.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ka6srth3n9ihfl33laqv20q661/18882778552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bec66140349---saladebeduzujorodewifoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078066987fec---38503440958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160868d6cbaa00---69980095338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacyltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad6bd052f72d9aee650bf77a825acc19/14373685276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbe3121c21---64559125596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15b0f79c8bde62a11048b86066b86596/bewejofizomanogebosetod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aff3b525cab---71743150985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160706dee9686b---wupuwagut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfbi.ru/content/file/88689733096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2c34f35fbc---89647386000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c86e7798fa5---jedutogojujipobawulavopaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoodwierty.pl/files/file/vogoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb1c623626be4e262f999f5368d3977b/90843400815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c865054cfca---pijusenirekilowusijomufop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acbb8d3a5cd---71735561283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogelaipigeon.com/upload/file/53444840680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosafety.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sopul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c75b1d914e---27892282472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d3beae083c---92698670453.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010963.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10963 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001217a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1217A 10412 bytes
SHA-256: aeff6a4eb317e089443873fcd1134854e8570757cad6247c24e537be6263da19
font_02_sfnt_off00013900.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13900 16812 bytes
SHA-256: c5da698bd9125b16560287e1d802c80acc7a71b67c1df7b92f8cddf129eb2fda