Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8460952bc2b000b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-08-29 02:41:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 7c7d1affb7caca22ce87a9ea160685b0 SHA-1: d191e53c0975e15790d3582d46c76cf3a887173b SHA-256: 8460952bc2b000b7ef2abf4f718fefb39f00f5f797442601c1e77418a822608c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, specifically pointing to a file within a formcraft upload directory. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious resource.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ae0a18005e---boxugud.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://saothienemb.com/uploads/images/files/3551012609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b28e6f8dad6f77da5eb52d6c446cb96/nisipavarapotagodam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/360958e6f79cf596fecbdc3edc51e8a3/45315731122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9mspa75j435ja2mc68950r8qrs/bexegujutuzowuzudesizerov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46be45f90f49d08ad38a40e7afbf45d8/96638091124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607715b26bc48---70430269009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haenuri.net/ckupload/files/36538354548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.euro-fly.eu/userfiles/files/29481017549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investbuild.ru/var/upload/file/2030325994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jodijezupozunidiravajup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16125e71b86901---15852023803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba674116bc0---lelidupaxitedukoxebipapoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopignotti.it/userfiles/files/5240236233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc75.net/upfiles/file/1622414549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091b594cae7d---julariketalotijujasun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847e2d79073---32302238727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4bf710b9df31fc3ad69937a6914da8e/mazewevidipalawez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polipadel.com/userfiles/file/31313517352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e62ca30629b---65959521266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vngo-cc.vn/cooker/public/files/79873314175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c92980ae8a4---94568142699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9384247156fbc966b3bc28e8f5768629/fibojukuxigiwidozabigul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecableapp.com/FCKeditor/FCKimgUpload/file/lekejabijovajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parfumerieindex.nl/images/uploads/kavipig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+sign+pdf+in+edgePDF 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_off0000d074.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD074 16584 bytes
SHA-256: d3cbf7cb774da14acd0691f954b414ec1227b0ccbbfcfc6ec1afff77d81fb702
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB8B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000113a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113A2 10444 bytes
SHA-256: 8dfaf605af93175ae79f2627f0ee52fd79cab574000a7e860fcbc535778d46ee