Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8afab0fea7f56d26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-14 08:00:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: cd98d03027d888d63039a00b9d1e2270 SHA-1: ebf3db8bf40d7bf96e1394ebbebc858184129179 SHA-256: 8afab0fea7f56d2605ce9142cccd083698defa5cd43cbb392fde557117feeca1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating a malicious intent to distribute or phish. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest this is a malicious PDF, likely a phishing or malware delivery vehicle. The presence of numerous links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads reinforces the malicious nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88195625685b43be152207b9956c62f9/tudovifunoko.pdf
    • http://zonazero.es/userfiles/file/11525678626.pdf
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd58783016883f92c3cadf9a57a70717/92058747377.pdf
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3e9348da9bf8f6487a2dceab5e3a375/62985819064.pdf
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3epvpff3jc7un2boabfvjdeu27/53131073667.pdf
    • https://associazionedynamica.it/uploads/file/14324906036.pdf
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/gedepizubena.pdf
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/sigazikesunezebeme.pdf
    • http://pi-consulting.ch/download/70974505696.pdf
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fd9868efcd---17798802404.pdf
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b1e8bb2972---nokalojopegu.pdf
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae8050ac373---94644367553.pdf
    • http://csim.jp/ckeditor/uploads/files/55179392812.pdf
    • http://grabnerestriche.at/sivuvaxi.pdf
    • http://controlsystemco.com/cache/fck_files/file/wunafi.pdf
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085946cbbbb8---wemusefopezer.pdf
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bb5daa34dbde63de6619a781214ed47/46420556618.pdf
    • https://meesens.be/KrMee/Tekstverwerker/14472363006.pdf
    • https://binarbaidtrading.com/public_html/userfiles/file/71576005155.pdf
    • http://myjacksonfamilyreunion.com/clients/e/e2/e2167ce47089e9b789d53270b7cccc99/File/muzawutujavetake.pdf
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a35b36e7a5c2f438efa9c59cd1f4c47/25992742501.pdf
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074585805b34---kudavabazugevakibe.pdf
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5heg2cad20ug8ldt6n54i2mm8q/geguju.pdf
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee0d857c7bfcb980e8af49d7d3708f62/gelikinapalujagebufuwul.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=present+continuous+ppp+lesson+plan
    • 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_off0000eb8e.bin
d4a2dac942c4c523877959ca9b4026d4e49c24424e4fe0d11b658731752b0370
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB8E 10468 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001037b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1037B 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011b8d.bin
b4e53416c39bf58795f8f64ee459e2f84c17b48e6fca8cbf7ecd2843377b0e42
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B8D 16836 bytes