Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a878549888fbbff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.3 KB Created: 2021-08-18 10:21:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 07caba2ae640ccc30da7a61429c9e46b SHA-1: 7fe915f799ce9024f09d18b572d5f7aa69a8968f SHA-256: 8a878549888fbbffa83712759b5ec4a95e688c688885e720b9f061f51cec16b3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads, aligning with a phishing or SEO manipulation attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05166e29e1e56bf65524cc77dc27edf7/putofunosasorason.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariaalbese.eu/userfiles/files/7631659685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fb090c3f92---20366189682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cn19p01d22hngncfhohs7bc2r3/93474383520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-sincere.com/upfiles/editor/files/14851465941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67947393159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160789c4ee3fc8---29656545049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/66005609517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e9beba6669---76776443821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belhasasecurity.com/userfiles/file/60547233490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isabellepieman.com/userfiles/file/96702881599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callalilyvn.com/upload/files/fasomotinesedaxuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a114fa44b0a---13608718039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/klgjdf9rg0miu11f35f266il8j/49023400497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pj15r5j2cjl2d16ph5ltp5onmk/22059892202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circolosilverblufitnessclub.eu/userfiles/files/xekekemejujupodatome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aab8aioy.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/solegigof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e49ced14c7df4fae50f25b733c1e00c/4924437396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42b0b9594b5c582a7ef36e3d7b5c2473/2053762930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://av-jet.ru/userfiles/file/timavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a13249e641d---nafujaliledilobufegapez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retrievers.su/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53139071400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dukeofmarshall.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vefawezewejogufepure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amrapalispot.com/userfiles/file/4746793343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86c3c25f081a366372b228b48b5f6836/lenofutudesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=farmville+2+hack+tool+pcPDF 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_off00011c2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C2E 17464 bytes
SHA-256: fa8b7a9b61bf9f30771b24fd93304a72894ec3f4152315ea9617253877ca5091
font_01_sfnt_off000149b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149B3 10620 bytes
SHA-256: e96c9cdfacf30a62a77a47e406c74c03c49b43cad705862a92b314665c93ccd1
font_02_sfnt_off0001620b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1620B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1