Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ad58d8770c64c50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-07-15 19:58:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b525cc6eda5d41761d1f0281bfe5ca08 SHA-1: 31a088eaca47cdc18bd0580a64cd5e08f75a4735 SHA-256: 8ad58d8770c64c5002f90a2a599a8f21708254c05ab22462559f0cfcabd10465
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other malicious PDFs. This suggests a link farm designed to distribute further malware or phishing content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2c912a1365---satepoje.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3vnqc4bouoo7chhbd99g4k3efg/46784681888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ufh5an3echreaikm9bj23pi334/34041934132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d5362abc5---88027164132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rilta.net/userfiles/files/20261513889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harrisitalia.it/uploads/file/38305282783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ad7986e899---55090950552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aurorabersinar2.com/contents//files/68852046802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5c407bd323---nunagasadoluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160744190735b2---98923460593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0163545583---relesezibutedijaterurodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f743ifpj5i16olbd1bl3fal6rj/72690560162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e09990be8---20726893778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/84701007542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/34091957611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df4a298a8af---mogeferasomisutalamedojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40723493dc3e83fd69615b80e13f5be5/63606041960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boracayg.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210630_585653009D77814C.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aefb17da42f83cd1099a5a6ce9a02352/zigezosozixixuxiniluxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otelm4b.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93040382383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086dd2a483d1---removebap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detikakdeti.ru/img/file/xesimodimojibofurenuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/sezawuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/xapilinobukezen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=mothers+day+drawingPDF 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_off0000ef10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF10 17452 bytes
SHA-256: 89ad60eb4c13ea22d7a16b8c6cdd77a17592f02fd906a982869d2ffa2d07dc43
font_01_sfnt_off00011c0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C0D 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 6c905d3f30193ce2b0a986c00bc0c618e83a26bc6e38bde9a2f160f65c5b85a4
font_02_sfnt_off0001346b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1346B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1