Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8261c82c00c1f645…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-06-23 06:07:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 33da950774f0e3b7d2ea343af3336232 SHA-1: 931f9102bc49d5f03d5d7c8d20f2a6336d8efdc6 SHA-256: 8261c82c00c1f6456073585e3d3a30cb5873f0dc2fbcbc111edfb5b73bbe9d79
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aea62fcebd4582f9879d69ab65a22bb7/10618962637.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a57a76160a---bozeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da4b056c31---61753261083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/72952874006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ca7fe2179a6f67ce4becea6bd6445cd/kimuvaxizuxesufafowuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072bd447dd17---82746877768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160948593c62d2---genarunewena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qt0pb2fnk4e94033r70ljmda43/pajubolaruxuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5evedgti0v0h4j2o6dluhu2e2j/99729163812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triatlonbizuterie.cz/sites/default/files/file/89233409520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budohurtsa.pl/userfiles/file/9262888664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamokugrofa.sk/admin/fckeditor/file/xababu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burragebrothers.com/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/92609131058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719a86450d4---10463118718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76ed1e926a024df3838e2decc82671fb/91389789497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valeneighbors.com/userimages/xokalosowerebarapubedaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6eda37a203---96145464146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=good+quotes+for+brother+and+sisterPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d94c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD94C 5260 bytes
SHA-256: 98dd1475bc4fe7d324320e122121dd6e798794ec60a1b638ae3b452193ec2b5a
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB21 10344 bytes
SHA-256: 4f60563ca7355d5c92dd9a45630155a22d9622cd0a4b4494a402d22e3769e42d