Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00f8cc4afde173c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-07-15 22:57:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 1a677fd077ec08de4fdb41172edf09f4 SHA-1: 2a2df4c9d0319ba707640b3855fd3dabf548bb64 SHA-256: 00f8cc4afde173c1782e2185d186d5173d621499916d0d956f68697cd9c9d042
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and the ML classifier's high score further support its malicious nature. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=almond+flour+oatmeal+blueberry+muffins PDF link annotation
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vadpkudsaam5fiiuldr2hpll52/budawadowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a21a7ea55cb---pozafuzavarubiwiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emaaravm.net/upload/files/22195426400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607673718333d---29358103170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce44602530---89157295165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202105022232112812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediagrand.hu//data/editorfile/lorofafekosapizafaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dishandspoonproductions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26327143128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb4b59b56be---tajuzode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1e277dc659---94520105028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f35bf1d28---sufanenesifogedejagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160be64531f209---palolowufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b28bc355a87---34512728790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://devison-matras.com/upload/file/nemorajexebafan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nanyangtextile.com/userfiles/file/52856474892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/12260114108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://areaarchitetti.com/userfiles/files/45647978764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608978d0a067a---sowam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e64f7cc5b15---84545206397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamlaproject.com/userData/board/file/jaxipusukuxojipufojuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valserve.in/web/k/main_admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47538020115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://papiratisk.cz/soubory/54048367691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsradviseurs.nl/mailing/images/photo/file/30220257729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aff49ea99e9---rozujoxenumafulixajog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b92b3c2ff08---mipepaburepunenazulo.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_off0000f73a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF73A 17088 bytes
SHA-256: 09578f0159e9ba732df6f489ed91bd55812fd63c9672753fa50230971161ee58
font_01_sfnt_off00012399.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12399 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 8e26deb91200f148254ce6ae77d273efc4c84ec90a873ce61ed4761050373d4e
font_02_sfnt_off00013ca4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CA4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1