Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8114d4abed7e23a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-07-01 10:17:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 2feef6a45bcac60b84d137cb1267adb6 SHA-1: 9acc0cd40723eecfd8025d04b8ecd7e968124293 SHA-256: 8114d4abed7e23a15d65f224aaf88c93e9399f6d96db79b1b775093aa9eba3a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This structure suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or further malware delivery. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/debq3vu4j3elk8ugkct7bgqtue/tutenasoxiwef.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://carstenrath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7vk9cbodigdumvq071kp213u1i/sodudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/totimumupowunanoxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160923171ca6b8---fuwuwadiveligata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2edb5b9280c423876da219c395f724f/wodesasusugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fe2d79b66a---97947810398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ge6686d7jrsnkjq72pop078e49/netoxofozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/36697725048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/963515f35cee2b268a7784f834fa72b3/tumojigomumevodogosuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608487a75f0ce---vasotisoguwaninibolavunav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c77afdcf704---kepejizatemadajipiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aed05c17ed854197775359bae4d42f85/lebibokavajupevowotuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vattucongtrinh.com/userfiles/file/vonizikevilikem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ixtvs.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/xofuguzadexos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldwalia.com/userfiles/files/nopupun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v03t231tcke9esc7oaii59cdl0/28082113560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madonnina.info/userfiles/files/25285957696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3f98fc429e---73183615358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9a39e5145a60be41ab4387d5952e812/wuwijodekolavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f706332d79---88695137354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce9185521d8---88231393005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1ad67268bd1154471efc6dbf49cd863/sewoluluke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af8b80abcb2---99459935968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/xivogunixutakulisarufoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1606f37f5582b5---guwijabavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=hst+on+home+purchasePDF 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_off0000d0bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0BB 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 9fb11cb9629dd4b2c198826dd83dd36627436c49582071359dc5cd8762f091ef
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8AC 16928 bytes
SHA-256: 6ef8a25a5d4799c3bbd6a529d07a5bf6db9690352a6b1d9ba7ad9c973b0bb25e
font_02_sfnt_off000114ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1