Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b0cd8d6a5c77343…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-07-10 03:32:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 1bdac13cdeaa188c698ad4e332708dca SHA-1: 732033bfdba1c9a1fd2eec5dd35e5f72193937ed SHA-256: 8b0cd8d6a5c77343ad5af09a03fc236139f3d49010b75c1e6aed24fb1ba31f23
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing content but the structure and heuristics point to a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c652fff278e---88834541889.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091858dbbdac---42579136867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firanywiktoria.pl/uploads/editor/file/ganuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafordexstudents.com/clients/0/05/05b3dbe7dd9dc6f92b523d2b721f2ffd/File/tupujakuxolujegagusose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://implant-drill.com/userfiles/file/xosatunozubin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://php-lounge.de/userfiles/file/monaxexutod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eperon-kochersberg.com/img_db/lajaloxanuxazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geopraxis.it/userfiles/files/fejux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a7deab3ce8---58529346029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4080f0675dbabff0d1a0f185d65c80a2/jokasufixuxoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/rugosugopun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s1diherncg826m6s7hmtmb1g39/lujazameloziroxexefaleveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beepost.vn/upload/userfiles/files/31414422072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d723b20f139---71555951076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc028.com/userfiles/file/20210626055038_rci0ae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/logijikabidazepamupudoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7a5763232f---basebabivijixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/173a4d4d750681fdcf65e1497fcf1a83/46658846055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91f0318d16bdb0a5548747d429757fa3/dimuvobovebixaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paardenwelzijnscheck.nl/app/webroot/files/ckeditor_files/files/nikikodufidikixukediwowaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0afd4efef6ebe6181b0d6bc5b4671a4f/faviwaganowok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/lagasikuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westmoorclassof1965.com/clients/5/52/52ec68f2b927accf75267cb07bfcc891/File/xesugirisiroguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wang023spa.com/userfiles/202106file/2021062008591470554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jar-ted.pl/file/67735465980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=pcr+in+biotechnologyPDF 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_off0000bf91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF91 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7A3 16892 bytes
SHA-256: 661deb926d0c002f713304518710344a8ccc106e30afba34f82cf9008b7a1adf
font_02_sfnt_off00010438.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10438 10432 bytes
SHA-256: d146996752544edbcd4df81d1a33a21e68699f605e87c2f0a2bab0e9974829ab