Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8470ab4e9113cdc3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-07-05 22:18:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d6118bcd4d54804d413bea51cbaccf40 SHA-1: aaa5324547220c6854b676b76e118808c3ccdc03 SHA-256: 8470ab4e9113cdc335546d6e85b82c4da2736ac6d0bdd46ba02ae4fc5a8c590d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates a phishing or redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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.reflectionuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dm6695boiirhonbv2543brucim/86552172753.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c988bddd59d24e1249d11aa8de7cdb4e/48242224600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oodow.cn/upload/file/210703061907808812tk86avz9m0k1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chi-kara.net/userfiles/file/rimewurukavuxejixesososef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leganordavigliana.it/uploads/file/6524564537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c6dcecaf44---579300481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajajsports.com/userfiles/file/jubinonidini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b14c87998a5be52904ab3dde710a6164/kugujeposapaseredenofaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/16308145624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://residenciasanamaro.es/userfiles/files/66477777189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aae21258fb2---doxomubiwakalito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kozhikodedeaf.org/admin/my_files/file/49225904642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--d1achljw0b.xn--p1ai/content/upload/62319509589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d652b2edbc77d9e28d5a9959f98fdcb/91900651776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bd28e04aa6ad8247a3ea8af7d37f885/57934618791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aybar-gallery.com/userfiles/files/60779198500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47c0520668fc9da33626de7e08e53910/bavufopisutubulare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e191e462afa---4758552488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/seann1oog2khmi9j7oehjjehim/betivufufiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8u0gplsi655u0pjqtv8jsa54a2/gonavokelivipipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edwardlankin.com/clients/86087/File/90271106913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eraldocomo.it/userfiles/files/42980672689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aonetreks.com/uploads/file/tezatunaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livresdarts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94361021235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=your+just+somebody+that+i+used+to+know+lyricsPDF 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_off0000ecab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECAB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000104bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104BD 17568 bytes
SHA-256: b9da5d1b497d1dbefbcfd86e97a56797d29f8f6ca2e443ba2b81bac515e04555
font_02_sfnt_off0001328d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1328D 11280 bytes
SHA-256: 765043e2ef60662abf2dc29c2f2c2c79150f2217503f080fabd954425f9ffa77