Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a46fe7ea576a261…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-07-16 08:15:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: fe7ad1d665d7c5079d6e3db92e59cbf8 SHA-1: 2d8adc3c9585530b20893a29aadf2c50c68a3e30 SHA-256: 8a46fe7ea576a2619394d67c1d436b578ac571b229b9f40221ce77c4ecd9f2fe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links indicates an attempt to leverage these sites for distributing or hosting malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://mygo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuwefonipirejep.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160772f3a73020---rikupetekosuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abaa50c3dc2---nipavivuboderak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubmaniacr.com/campannas/file/tuvexogunakimoxibuxutif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcifirsatlari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805ccc5fd24---nimigeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59049973867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/pamalavabuwodufuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogservice.ru/userfiles/file/tigaxijomubinemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/260f3b712aa990d81a19c0bf65932ad9/zosasudinisofogavemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alves.bg/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83272859269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9efrhrgl1o729v2ra32sms7ar8/99752556030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098389d573c1---4819920726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedaptap.net/userfiles/file/35549659444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2074419b1ce5f49d2a56c602b99599fa/78578853607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfavs.eu/userfiles/file/sawunikisonadejarisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d40e50e588b511b7501dcff0aa766dad/55497203488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d6a740d0f---96669803825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monyetmesum.com/contents//files/62321253496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38f905735d65311ca42037c2b059004b/sezeguzude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planbmedia.hu/files/84594927180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ada868b3245---vepixolamuzosilugezezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/245bc9c96425ee7a7c3a6fb669400ca1/44132435953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/18160399367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80fvos82jr5iahktbb0hclec53/dosexibiwisejude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843969e4e81---64734928501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voxel-avocats.fr/uploads/file/74176021002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=repondez+in+englishPDF 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_off0000eb66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB66 10416 bytes
SHA-256: af79fbd6afd61c8c3b838482fa6277ed1074f06ffa65296abffc83b514061fb1
font_01_sfnt_off000102a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102A8 17188 bytes
SHA-256: c82ff2395b53d61b9bdc5736888d429e21f5ecb4d819068d33ceb60b2f9f1f74
font_02_sfnt_off00012fd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FD0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1