Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8629ff24f0ef8d9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 19:22:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 1714ce9883a43235bfd554f499328773 SHA-1: 51e954c58e44ca005fa2bb3fc0a07be1d304728a SHA-256: 8629ff24f0ef8d9b52a51ee25a174cacbacba4a8aa5440a9e2cb5724a93ce22e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. Multiple heuristics point to the document being a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, directing users to potentially malicious URLs. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest the file's primary purpose is to redirect users to external sites for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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 https://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lean+for+life+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad3af37f3ef---rowekidejuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33413745c17384e62d86eaaaddc17ef5/notuvumefom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090823693880---venirapozovojaxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansatrans.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99224935657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boekenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/pepezorem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rimsball.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lenigerezoganatugitigezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///vegulegikejowasuluwasit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803e42a5a64---49749347144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b97f7a12b2---zetunanuvagifodova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de22f746f4020650f14b47dc97ceaa58/28602445264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8ae0768636244392e82e26d6d04f555/59816041165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safrano.pl/userfiles/file/fokidoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/lufedisoxodabiragonefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fhs76reunion.com/clients/0/00/009202203981f132fd14d012a57c0fe5/File/fugozomesifujajawalevop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukrainski-rosyjski.pl/userfiles/file/nigakumobudewejisax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609825199e5bb---93096172672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l7f26pha4n4ndvuhgat0gthbq1/17836157850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fbb298d6a2---14135801127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ceb0a048861---54270451242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a3947d863a---gibagomawepoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavclearing.ru/upload/files/76444835083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd6c515ce6a86d669d680c8ac8c843ef/wapif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160801077e30ff---xutawurisep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd340d541e---piletirug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58bb5c643857ca2a506e704576153ab3/32127175268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c39cb2e2464---7685230774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f391.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF391 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010ba3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BA3 17984 bytes
SHA-256: 0d71a7f6450a01aae2be212995b2d8f504a2acc45f7655607a6ae5793872b079
font_02_sfnt_off00013ad8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AD8 10180 bytes
SHA-256: 008585974fdaef10c637fc779b2b2c19005ac878cbf5fd588d98ec58ee5d9142