Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8afbc1405589c2a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-08-26 04:47:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 2c690d0aa60c77bd33e1a63951d18832 SHA-1: 742be653b1ddc9833c9c2e4f6a38dc196294bf52 SHA-256: 8afbc1405589c2a4c4cb24457771e528079a50f3a0c0979b5c799fefa1b72926
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to external sites. ClamAV and ML classifiers flagged this PDF as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9909

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://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8f4d5505e589a1cd1016c551ec6d058/navojarowezerowepeb.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://permianhighschool1970.com/clients/e/ef/efee9fcbc667252fc4b649c8163d3733/File/mofurub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/068ed0e8c520428fd429d76ff0bb67f9/zitenudevetobadalelupiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://energooptima.hu/upload/File/89406371600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t5k1dh6u1ana3j3vc6d78eh8ao/gajunurixosamilajobemar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuitsdartistes.eu/images/file/67028310975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b941dd1259e8b8050f0d678d65bac195/zabokusozoruxuxato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/snt7u9pmn0gee17r8ej5vouet2/71284710751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7de3ca47fe36ead476d18fd4a39cb20/biladonedubedujixomebawab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1o0gb5uj5iuvqdfu3a0upp84jp/24380675814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aircond.md/upload_fck/file/kopivemifojofawugosafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bh6d0b601tdojgdtt5qauogt0d/55593075288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alrukn.co/userfiles/files/85790428001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/ravenugixugab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/64039878704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be45ab67608---81525893656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krakow4you.pl/krakow/files/rugowesen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charugarware.com/DEVELOPMENT/charu_garware/uploaded/userfiles/file/27144392481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/widejerovusefuxisufuveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f965c4ee47049fc3c0f23e51cad70d33/fivitexolotekeduvan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3e7ad6de88---18934388067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bocamvigliesrooms.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fda30d6c93e4abf7ee264eaff7691fb/42207406111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa4f462f6e---8607268355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiredriver.com/uploads/assets/files/63648452708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealhca.com/admin/images/file/detogenotopofomule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bellevuecommunityfoodbank.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efedbd304b728e71d6115f74dc572d54/14030380620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=campbell+biology+10th+edition+pdfPDF 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_off0000d2e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2E7 11136 bytes
SHA-256: 6952c3d7a1f964c6456a3fbe9f44ee97f853df65c9c6f866f91e892799d0a8ca
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC48 16076 bytes
SHA-256: da542739c102bef86cb7affb17652d56f336d9aa7f6cbf50988c8fceff8f8922
font_02_sfnt_off00011550.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11550 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1