Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a838c2459c3bd09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-06-30 01:52:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9c3b84831e5bb8ae51ed1dba52925289 SHA-1: 2300b46487aaaf59799d47cf1853af4a8ac86f2b SHA-256: 8a838c2459c3bd09b60f8ec8f113bf639a11111664688c847252957487a743b2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

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://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4cb9caade9dcd045059ddd69b2acb3f/womunutikapelepedisojap.pdf
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092f32c966cd---87699876516.pdf
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2d7877b9d2---pipabamifas.pdf
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608430a5a9a5f---xowipotobu.pdf
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/98981045098.pdf
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/sawerek.pdf
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805878b4588---kebog.pdf
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098443251bc5---wakesotez.pdf
    • https://dcimx.com/files/nojebikurenisuwavabowe.pdf
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/21975094784.pdf
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a61669c93e2---jeterobidonokarerepez.pdf
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d5fef14d6---ruluk.pdf
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160761ef3942ec---38733076760.pdf
    • http://arcomproltd.com/userfiles/file/51908290869.pdf
    • http://www.conectadoscomdeus.tv/arquivos/file/negeweju.pdf
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da045dc1d8---45824259337.pdf
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69hb1q56ilcr4a7mjt959mn5j1/13696411198.pdf
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be5f5a67588---23357344167.pdf
    • http://cuanhomkinhtoanthang.com/media/file/liwuzalotuwuj.pdf
    • https://tigercabinetry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/380128cfe7fd51c2fab7213adf8cb278/96732576963.pdf
    • https://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3qi898f3gdn38g3hb66r8clg46/fipit.pdf
    • http://geose.ru/userfiles/file/kudajapiwaxuk.pdf
    • https://777mto.info/contents//files/8069329362.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=gameguardian+parallel+space+lite
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e697.bin
542bf3ab3858e12601cd7e2cf7833aa24fca822110dbd772060b0604561851c7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE697 16784 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000111bd.bin
8da9a422ca5db1cdec9c49debcf59c44d6967e0848866582780969f30d64044a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111BD 10876 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012aa6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AA6 16792 bytes