Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8709151fee5acffe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 23:20:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 657d4aee3785cfe54a1b48bdc93e6001 SHA-1: a2d42437d20af1c5ea515cc579b21932caf49cd5 SHA-256: 8709151fee5acffee609c329f5564f98bf417d0bf62c0d8640d1fe6ffd27ec18
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious or phishing content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the detection indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f79ef2e681---96740416062.pdf
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2qk422vga49h2j0jrhkc6t5852/gisivo.pdf
    • http://haniltm.kr/upfiles/editor/files/vujod.pdf
    • http://qca.ch/userfiles/file/89830640912.pdf
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/ralejepa.pdf
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ec5g8fvf6d7bgasf4hgv0im5m/73220537707.pdf
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ak576oh5kd0s033b3d9psui4bn/xepexoburirokuxewuzopoxe.pdf
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084012518380---48515966726.pdf
    • http://flexa.cz/docs/file/53629699138.pdf
    • http://xn--dlek-5qa.com/admin/UserFiles/file/11564769045.pdf
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/97213632678.pdf
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dd443b4f0490671255fe44bf664f5ed/xixemagiguvon.pdf
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6443400682---sajibujidirujolu.pdf
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/xaxutizada.pdf
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3c0f0b3635f015aaea253379f6fcf37/90307322714.pdf
    • https://tort-art.ru/userfiles/file/mubatur.pdf
    • https://dakhoathienhoa.net/images/files/47363032916.pdf
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba6086dd5e832b4edb4f1a9e237587f5/baxuvopisadoxorevetan.pdf
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a209b0feb96c5c951c15918ebce2790/94706123180.pdf
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e5add9c054---7421383470.pdf
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/412338e82f3bdabcd267ff6968697e28/43763622129.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=the+next+step+new+episodes
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ce4f.bin
3a6cbc996fdd2c092dc2f6766697e56c6a475facf81b5a68905e72e3a5d308f1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE4F 17700 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc88.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC88 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001149f.bin
c00221f4f1246ab16f283015e69551d1d87e2ed9d6c8e6d26afa57e2ec338efa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1149F 10332 bytes