Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8601020eacba4d35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:26:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c5b36cdeee1a2162d04a4f662913020c SHA-1: 6ec21170c2774ecf1c5effddbfdb45d394302953 SHA-256: 8601020eacba4d358bb62278915a14c2b21f7d9085ad5c59911c01aff671f940
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071979759c4e---mowabasemakefufazubir.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.deco-interieure.com/userfiles/file/jalokosefowuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-newsletter.com/ckupload/files/42220134602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbgnfinance.com/userfiles/file/34406615195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074256a62256---24884573233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokeocncafe.com/uploads/files/jozov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c461506322f---furamavalinoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bgindus.com/t/tutorfirm/uploads/ck/files/23239170442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tessuno.com/upload/files/6114dbab88069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juegosinflablesarizona.com/files/1495439000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mlbr3l0ht4q64g0i1nkt8s33i3/danelepoporetasub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/19934959676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///dovuxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atputasbazes.lv/images/userfiles/files/kokagogogivosaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a364b6d7ed0---12097152793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begemot-rus.com/uploadfiles/file/2021051211524973499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cppzone.ru/users/blogs/file/32159437133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75943682b5468ca850fa0bad65bee366/94052299698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushimenifee.com/uploads/files/28421457817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bqdv4ecmjkia64gtfha47vj18p/lozux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sskj.pl/userfiles/file/zujujodekovorurekupijomoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioboscono.it/userfiles/files/94465114988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a87839d2c71---fepunipakanudefusofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sacmacbook.net/userfiles/file/22787300788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=sample+of+scope+and+limitation+research+paper+pdfPDF 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_off0000dafb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAFB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f30d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF30D 18252 bytes
SHA-256: 4f6b3a0e3f2ae28aa640d5401fe17891d3045d5450d5ec00c9bfef1143e27dcb
font_02_sfnt_off00012182.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12182 10960 bytes
SHA-256: f1574d093f306bfa4b6f423c481aa779acafd4df9473cc70b621cc725d61f7be