Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b74cea6e5646d91…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-06-30 21:02:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 5f642448ad6b77c13bb180cbd5fb7ed3 SHA-1: 0671ebffcbb96aacfe78554af71381517abfdea2 SHA-256: 8b74cea6e5646d913bbe19c9817f2755855e4a08ed95731e9c51c617de13b107
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links are likely used to distribute further malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b72923e4425---44679217609.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bcdf6f32ba---dubatozim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i8jdlnviql4jae18fkpbfjjrgo/ligexumilamigalited.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/zezuluredujowewaluvokewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b39c434159f---48179402593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f6ca0db19---repowape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r10i120ig2l7lainrkvdc2meb8/zerakawomesotojogexika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e94501d307---pilosimosotuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04j8a5ttalsn0bhdp2oniudniv/95389822187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/9652933779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hlpivkqljpjsgpq9r41hof5hgb/45527747118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teenmag.cz/userfiles/file/viriwagexezafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alacarte-design.de/userfiles/file/wesegudatipibezazig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d22e6f4fd603d017f49cc05ce48050c/lufuwabelupesofixaloze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d7b0fbf293---bonotuxisuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gregor-biffiger.ch/userfiles/file/mizasupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/733480681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/kaxeribupuzokox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95b19a3ee8de016861671f8a2a6a139e/86762353199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asthasupermarket.com/userfiles/file/85179181540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/34419580752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43f61daac4bd2e1466e56aeeb6c78719/jusavireduvuzujiwege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e29573ad9e---95659533583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f62b98aa134ea3f103718a0767861ced/55731191910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c69c10225cff286633193716854a3ece/pobiduxenowif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c88892bfe76---12209643215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valdhans.cz/userfiles/file/84493366906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=fire+and+rain+guitarPDF 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_off0000f066.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF066 10168 bytes
SHA-256: 87420c563d619ed9dfb21f4a427803fe113b48093d80c42967dd645635736f5d
font_01_sfnt_off000106fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106FC 17740 bytes
SHA-256: 5abdda368d4d458bc81d61a4b990746eb837957ad6cf87d8f81b89dc6697b0a4
font_02_sfnt_off000134ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1