Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8752bddef1f650e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 07:12:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: c63db5044dadc969e19b8fded4909299 SHA-1: 0bfa7c9d724bde4fd45e68179a92ba3ca74d90e4 SHA-256: 8752bddef1f650e7a60a70e83422d04b28ffc4d5dec7df7f379054e860648d95
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077103558a70---26005221938.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chongthamphucthang.com/images/news/files/24856937147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caraudioshop.ro/mm/file/71642078347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1687c78f81---38977708922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettaletroom.com/file_media/file_image/file/34693858566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ildiko-szepsegszalon.hu/userfiles/file/63581140695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076da416cc07---garuweja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0934a55c43---72181171380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607858bca1234---visukerifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dfd2fc4a36---86295287088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d708f9818f---tovon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lescourailleurs.com/upload/editor/file/23454631876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertoniamministrazione.it/bertoni/public/file/89988397186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/93286515216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3bbde1984afa65ece765e174dcfbfa0/24824102276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bs22p63qr5ugvln7f09cofk460/mimepefubobetizomujuwaris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebel-moscow.com/content/xuploadimages/file/79425953214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wasserentkalkung.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gipavuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmxn.com/userfiles/file/20210615225853_8nih2c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d63b8cddd7---95126254687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pension-erlkoenig.de/img/editor/file/94504237500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2990592.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wirogatiwosiwaderovakuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rivucota.com/upload/files/newod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=present+progressive+ing+worksheetsPDF 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_off0000d847.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD847 17860 bytes
SHA-256: 520c690e60027d028a0009013e7b31fc0ceff31dafa477b249e713900d4073fb
font_01_sfnt_off00010673.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10673 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 3efc249dd7a09773c3604c8ea99b2298cf8942380504521c2c8a9a1952c86201
font_02_sfnt_off00011e96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E96 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1