Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a470c143f2578ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-07-08 01:50:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: f377156956d58418df07e107f3b03ca9 SHA-1: 5b1d2c037c52f4e50290e15a3bea482127d104ea SHA-256: 8a470c143f2578ad01558887c69403595b7b6ab7db3442a16359e3f2527b4391
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories on various domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware or lead users to phishing pages. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct user-facing content to analyze.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160773e09e2335---zowamukavofojo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alllegaltask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5aatn0i9ioihf6ivj1eopjc6n0/18469575743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bliksis.ru/userfiles/file/2758756107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheinmotel.com/userfiles/file/39059380427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhathuydesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6t4gm9b06anbva330tmmqo3od/90718661905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/zigulebikadunuzurepelos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/699ikjudd7sn5n0rhe4ad73ode/59288285468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d089d43bf9f---pinegoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98db7592676982f02930441c41f0e5d8/mofoxosepusulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb64be07d92---rapep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajur.rest/uploads/userfiles/file/pobuvofuzovakoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://g-shocktou.com/user_file/file/lomodonuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajhansnursery.com/userfiles/file/situwalepegus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072998381000---wazudekalawijolorez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160927bd52fb99---73557339073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secretinvitation.net/images/files/rodokatonatug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattingtoemrerogsnedker.dk/userfiles/file/zosodagawojupol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s-privod.ru/userfiles/file/75788434582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e9945c2eb---34970318535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whalesart.com/uploadfile/file///2021070401565995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80e3c9b40735b1cd0dfe979bef269b2c/filivubafikajevozax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/97783741274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/nijex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=definition+of+duopolyPDF 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_off0000e7ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7EC 16960 bytes
SHA-256: c0b10397652d4b2af42688c43a3f27f544d1cf4f255b2053b6f4a74735926108
font_01_sfnt_off000113f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113F4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C0B 10276 bytes
SHA-256: d9bc1b8c5383e73061cea7e59b1a43b1407fcdfdd99062aa66b5ac613974f81d