Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8842f8efb7ccbb3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-06-27 07:11:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 9bf63287b44ca4e1c5b6d33c46b23db6 SHA-1: 94376716d843f04e1dcc1f7d9e58072651181483 SHA-256: 8842f8efb7ccbb3ad1ae8c6de65e02c4a7ab0198535ef28ff602f8079a316cca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as a lure to direct users to malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b47ea09430d---59581311401.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vydavatelstvoklett.sk/userfiles/file/19228200513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whalesart.com/uploadfile/file///2021062411504743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/deaabaade0feed4d30f9431fc4b75aa0/71975374415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dush-kz.ru/uploads/fck/file/tojizamezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f83af2fca---61839109061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gn8ipsleqi2qn4fvn67v0vf7do/wavevuwusaniladisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlspublishing.in/data/eimages/file/53188444978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fcf9200dfa---29243358068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160929de65f95c---jewiditid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottotech.center/userfiles/file/80979773900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qkgpjtjk5gk501qu9fevdl2p9j/75866143997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/51415838821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd63f6de6f---lolixererevenosadinajame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/740dc169a5a3b5ee081fc315d630b4f9/damedenenono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b67a4e65ec153e27b41a024701c87bc/regovagutokatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c840c69968---17229241046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ffc226bbd---donuwudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/fisofumiramowotugukipomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e6dea913d---93366365703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteyourstaff.com/calisma2/files/uploads/34319499232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608247a967baa---99976501038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab89f28d4b3---juzudakusetanavisif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+tall+is+boxboxPDF 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_off0000dca0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCA0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4B7 10084 bytes
SHA-256: d36b76a42516524fbd22979cc5cb2a6f3d00033ba82a7e0983be34b049d1aa77
font_02_sfnt_off00010b59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B59 18272 bytes
SHA-256: 3c96f1d16037fb4f63e5f589d44a8cfe260f5c75e7090e6f86eb68dbec61f034