Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8808709880bd1cff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-05-29 12:59:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0b68f837f7b93627c7c2f77a318843da SHA-1: c6ba87edfa0bae5e8cae3838b41f60909274e116 SHA-256: 8808709880bd1cfff39b504716eb84c06a5554b7d6c0b1706ea572aa2428ac02
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates the document's primary function is to host and distribute links to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ca085e91cd---dimirejef.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d33f4fd290a8f295499741f1b26efd32/nokorawuropugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f50d26dbb609f6c8e0b669cbc68c1f9/xafevorevugimegomudow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788b4ac3580---99404293454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/14458526696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093e46301599---25074766962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ee2d0e36e---54745731129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba6f413a8521c097c3578339d19ecec2/47610728921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2bee385d91---sasaxulijelodatafamaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b8d7cea74---26571091089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m6m9be89e6vs2u4pvfh5l8udug/xosadijavumuzuxabiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bcb2453f55.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/38335189604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edsmm37dksiggedjoum6gpsn70/rafejorowenotedepafum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxidmum.com/images/upload/fck/file/getiwakufaved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=que+se+necesita+para+viajar+a+australia+desde+espa%25C3%25B1aPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000e3ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3EC 5476 bytes
SHA-256: d836279d9d16487bef814ed750ac2daa019bd2e3087e7b235a8d3fee89db7c2a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f660.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF660 1800 bytes
SHA-256: e9a5a1f6ed95b1e3669933bb00002ad32a1708c3e0b735191cad5e02368a6c7d
font_02_sfnt_off0000feee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEEE 11720 bytes
SHA-256: cffeea7da455abf70791d4acfbf424bed2dcc826f196cf9b14e879d4671380bc
font_03_sfnt_off00012562.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12562 16312 bytes
SHA-256: 531e37f64a2e7dc3bfb257675d9e6c644c7b1597f33ba9a969cd005a7ed65660