Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8542c09ecc375a20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.3 KB Created: 2021-08-07 19:30:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b1fff030535bc0347f41b89384056346 SHA-1: c6887253d14d8409fed53663517d01f2be52ef78 SHA-256: 8542c09ecc375a20479cab77ad408a613dab21ac744be09c140e23784d948752
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm or redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or phishing sites. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery, often involving embedded JavaScript for obfuscation or redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9899

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 http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c94437b3d9---13854847039.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://batiment-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/54524854662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083db78e7631---41472089962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapsalonvogue.nl/files/file/jimisetepuzobawibadubaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenno-tojestto.pl/userfiles/file/13615783073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4b1ab30e3684f39ddd1c15202260fed/18438729630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/orce01lfi6if83b6cefchhv2v3/78100005980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autothudo.vn/upload/fck/file/34297398500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muskogeeroughers1967.com/clients/9/98/9899c641331876fb313f08ec475a0443/File/mazaramoneronanixizizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessvaluationapp.com//fck_files/file/11638782171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congchunghadong.com/uploads/files/kivubekabefudukof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13ebb8ba380e958f24f1f6ee5d4e47e1/62145803387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/45539395889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///40370705121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607051cb41926---40299445735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balustrady-metalik.pl/files/zepawewigabogorovaxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mutitar.com/user_img/files/tafubejafevogizej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dialog-seversk.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23911995286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hunghiephuylog.com/upload/files/47874840922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55c21836d6b4cc0087afeda058049c9a/25885289739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogelaipigeon.com/upload/file/41923285606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjsixiang.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210714062507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/76739645679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b679854d56---54685143942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=maths+tables+2+to+40+pdf+downloadPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001393d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1393D 17608 bytes
SHA-256: 0de6ed1107263a933da64493c9f0719294f931034619f42d6eb39049833733b8
font_01_sfnt_off000167b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x167B6 2280 bytes
SHA-256: 3c8c4d6be6a596124aa999f508d29a6aa3bf609e22e384fbcf51b965dc9aee5a
font_02_sfnt_off000171b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x171B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000189cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x189CD 10940 bytes
SHA-256: e64bca8b4064c7156513e97ce1b9423e3180201568a036ee2b9fff66493cdf72