Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8912301145f5b373…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-07-06 08:01:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 12fb6a49a2d2fbadedaa0603671bc526 SHA-1: c97c11416604a4d8887fb5c3fc8561784ede2ae3 SHA-256: 8912301145f5b373b24c89edc64737187e5d2f30c4849113ef41ba930ed793cf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads, consistent with a spearphishing attachment delivery method.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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 https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eff6a6e23f77655153b79d8744ed2953/67799480782.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606edc225f6a6---limek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c93dadd7e3---tabes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79fd275a88eca2f6350c838728eb18f0/sirajegotofukekugodikij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123natura.com/stockages/files/3083218913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f7d662a39e19cccb9a9e800c3a3d009/tewagigexejilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff9ef5d2ab6b7c3244406108d74e4d55/82823424745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfforming.ru/d/files/zazokixifotalalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ef59d30b13---65327487964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nibrasimansch.com/userfiles/files/59348768765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4i788efp9289ddba67bc6c88ol/90313018215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82qjb64sjjo5cj0du5ei1pcgp3/peludunexitad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c94927557ea---sujusunozapaxinunax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8cbb8b39ff---93455077868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lmalaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/dejirovesofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swalaya.in/userfiles/file/zedusubafonoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bd4673e4bb0671e527327130b116b4c/74595282057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drsuthichai.com/userfiles/files/mabapitaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanyoujie.vip/userfiles/file/nikewol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fd2815869d2bea45db31381ae11a1f1/xizifuzaxiralikevojuniju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megaprestige.ru/uploads/files/33634338582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyosangjo.com/userfiles/file/20210609233725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tycoonmedical.com/userfiles/file/pexomoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=a+state+of+the+artPDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc18b347c3fca5bdf53112a117151b04/53376699923.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_off00010517.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10517 10048 bytes
SHA-256: 26f5d4b41c23ee98c9eddd6baf193ea616f5accf618cee056b6423b5a589eb5f
font_01_sfnt_off00011b9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B9E 17016 bytes
SHA-256: 72cbc60da8290658128850c32346425bb9c631649be2505bdee46bba3917efbf
font_02_sfnt_off000147e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1