Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8075b0360bb368a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-07-06 03:46:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7d71a1afbb1ad980d44e32fa5afa5784 SHA-1: 21174766c52dd9615c23df1e7947f9205f5a1014 SHA-256: 8075b0360bb368a72ea78622a60c1e15966ff2a42e66980eafefef767fa6a465
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites. These sites, in turn, host other PDF files, suggesting a multi-stage attack designed to distribute phishing content or malware. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm indicate an attempt to lure users to malicious destinations.

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://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5hn2v8uvs7mj3tttt7a75o62qs/49548766883.pdf
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6a9ccd777---71071361873.pdf
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a11518e9392---tufanadojeteguvudidipida.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7cbfb0381---tufanudasivananuzaleku.pdf
    • http://rokakisreunion.com/clients/a/a8/a85ca1e4cfc2bb88d767af442173b437/File/85151036576.pdf
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c75pccae5ghlf008g74k9to880/pefesoxeniveju.pdf
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075457d0eded---71367627485.pdf
    • http://hk-dcc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6pivev4pkmoh5t2iv7fg58fmfo/mijabemobube.pdf
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f3dba58d83---wowid.pdf
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa9f124a44b---92620790063.pdf
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a019de10b8---xekewudij.pdf
    • http://k-yoga.org/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210513174743.pdf
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/pizetilozub.pdf
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8bcc73928f---gejanununo.pdf
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d45d1193d9---31015776202.pdf
    • https://lingchuanfloor.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/44267044472.pdf
    • https://cald-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d12830213d5ffa3baf1d31b55ae86fe/90560780620.pdf
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607caf5e0e20b---kipiv.pdf
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9938b61c41---laramizudetum.pdf
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55afe21976b570d8554e272339fd9128/98082633546.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=unethical+lawyers+cases
    • 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_off0000f621.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF621 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010e38.bin
212d88821112e0c8cb0ea2ea985bd54f8e15a2c410b31b92b5367dfa812f3544
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E38 10412 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000125c9.bin
44247fc86146f8e24323af56ba17c21e580eaeb01fb1079ffbd746efc6465b3a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125C9 17608 bytes