Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ad49bb479554f87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-08-26 02:00:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: b6e784b5b3abacb5689646595f0b2e7b SHA-1: 0abc3d3a7dfa93630a412425ed42bdb95ae386b8 SHA-256: 8ad49bb479554f87e6776945f65e595f45c97b4115cf1383c8c82b38733ff547
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, specifically identified as a phishing trojan by ClamAV. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to exploit users through deceptive web content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b524d709942---93569401875.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://karpatskiles.ru/store/files/javosodufuwupax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuspsurgeons.com/userfiles/file/refogepapibabudojalol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sireny.net/share/files/kumugiwaximipepeboniteda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b59052b6857c1f9821d8564457ed9d9/xogozowuzebofubuxofipoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linpus.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/25713990270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://millecolori.it/images/file/wuxigowaxumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geostudio.eu/userfiles/files/ziwejosalebunoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab643d021eb---dapazepebowej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3drm.bg/uploads/pictures/files/54051462060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charlesstreetvideo.com/userfiles/file/12045019868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20cb8f5c063031f328d7d536e55977a6/32988868299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c07ce0494d0d79189b3deb7c9631bd55/84640261181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilmatbasim.com/userfiles/file/55756066344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98a302l6turci37ri951m4uhh2/zafanutasigetukereg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flyingkirin.com/uploadfiles/file/220428133279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krzysztofmalec.pl/gfx/fck/file/52974478452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cd1aa6b638---31361178432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharmtocairo.com/userfiles/files/sunajozevofunor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084eae64055b---26028433647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/55599838402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe6212329e8---15472189627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c81b867c4---70057073842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a008b237a9---9817749928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=pop+culture+trivia+2020+with+answersPDF 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_off0000fe74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE74 17184 bytes
SHA-256: 7c5e2f8a99ffb6573c6a09893cc14b5f1c4ee29e9e8e72732b406a65f9295c2f
font_01_sfnt_off00012b13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B13 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 879fdcce3890bebf7f3703ca39fd1afa2b07062ddd645b5454d63f168a8c9016
font_02_sfnt_off0001449b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1449B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1