Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8420b7401e54a0d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 10:08:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c1981bf387ccd30cfcd16bca60f1abf7 SHA-1: 44a4ec177dee1f8dbd0266c6a29aa0bccbd0d3ce SHA-256: 8420b7401e54a0d66625913b0ce9e73d518e126f5e313a79f55d0a5661624b66
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. This structure suggests the file is designed to act as a link farm, potentially leading users to phishing sites or malware downloads. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161167b64976c5---remedafopatuj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bielwod.com/userfiles/file/36923476808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/ruzedazopulafilejuneko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sooclose.eu/upload/File/39553644890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b372feec44---2760487247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/295eb93a59d987b52fa6d72f621846a3/voxema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bcd167422d---mepopexevimakejafiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/84905163354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archi-m.ru/userfiles/file/monakizixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapa-technika.cz/UserFiles/File/2238223870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3lcvk31udu7ibiejcite4kjs96/36687622264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd6923ea4e2---29617475583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acupunctuuryao.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98478106009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyacer-ecp.com/userfiles/files/20210731_080014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/961427b28e7a1438f16ca239909bca14/80732269041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografoenricogiampieri.it/userfiles/files/walovufesutenelefejepez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca324dbd684908df596f699d99931223/sumik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/40290574344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c877101c2c---tojexezegefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fca4aaf6b6---rixirowavefemala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrem.ru/images/file/97499344818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f9258877064635a26b19c9a12db04ca/pofojud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolmalatrek.com/userfiles/file/fipuxuxeranufakapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=exceptions+to+mendelian+genetics+worksheet+answer+keyPDF 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_off0000e4fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4FE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD15 11340 bytes
SHA-256: f940e8d877f1bf668901e51f9700864eab7e72c563afd5017a7df8724da504c2
font_02_sfnt_off00011771.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11771 17872 bytes
SHA-256: 3fa59650c48cb801e32e3fca24c31a7d4bcaf820c66e945a4d60c56641064534