Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 808052241db73fbc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-07-24 12:59:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: bd5a6b014770d4249538959d01ab6a39 SHA-1: 64c8ff33008b5b9b0ddc0f4990ddb7ea32c17393 SHA-256: 808052241db73fbccfd3f181615da8a4c4edfc1e11d34e07b38e0772744599f9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable domains. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external sites, potentially for phishing or SEO abuse.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8o65l3ukto32k2q0s6sm5fho4b/90101054456.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210503055930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a574b041dab---79132922075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3706c3be1f---gekam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a5fda4032248320e6fbe5cb11b610d4/fisoxekapezorabofewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b3104c110372c975ba281dfe019c301/92218857604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ofertaromania.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wejezadadeboburorexumed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba147c9a713---66395664300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.deuba.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74tnmelmtect3e196oaeckq8bs/39343077692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmont.eu/userfiles/file/8657124320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44134fb2bd99f478819efe458db917ab/gajedolijolijepox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homelife-superstars.com/image/files/84264359290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com//data/attachment/file/68741152310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d72bc8200---jiruzosevama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89b4038c9eab6c5554030bd0329970c9/20608279553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/neducmi8gb138kmnbi5kmbcral/porukawutuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/pogogidenosomavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--rssx31a7tec6p.com/upload/userfiles/files/20210703210508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5cc6515bon2o2guf6s8l4bod4/66819751478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/913e5ea82b8762a1178b75c3dc263f8d/63703249338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://md-servicios.com/userfiles/file/tirirasilolekojojozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettaletroom.com/file_media/file_image/file/52921123213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukuleleceilidh.ca/clients/860383/File/mematew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad40b466016---31003749578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a8b9d32a2e4d37e8130f5eea16393ad/dupesaradegavadisubenoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=seafloor+spreading+review+and+reinforce+worksheet+answersPDF 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_off0000dbd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBD0 11216 bytes
SHA-256: 78999f9241346d566c5699574f21dddb62e55183da6e01886e0d1d49e3a5e080
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5D9 17120 bytes
SHA-256: 2ac120dc9e0cc1781f36041c6aa8d46a5f012e77ce6a9a26fef8b97e2c065cbb
font_02_sfnt_off000122d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1