Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b777a3b5cacf3b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-07-07 13:27:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 04038f487243325e8076c1b7d630c483 SHA-1: 3e4e1ef0beff9113f879dbdfe3d1bc26b6a39f5b SHA-256: 8b777a3b5cacf3b98c9d44295f226f802714ecd1492de7457a8a21a7da55f4eb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, flagging it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other sites hosting further malicious PDFs. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

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://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18ab17422b9eb0c1a5acbae6407cb589/nijoxenibolagewokabata.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tms-technology.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kozerisan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charterfori.ir/basefile/charterforiir/files/lirinewixenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://communeouchamps.fr/userfiles/file/jojapolamigibunozud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acefa748ebecd73a13b2f4c7b71bd28c/xisizedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dbk8fma6uv49jcekpl0911d3h/60280607210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/91604800512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8513873f24---gefozeduralifixiduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0fdb0a6034---54014392957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af72c7873b1---95866786810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://die-elke.de/cms/elke_page_files/file/14296923724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cc2ba9d3dad7e9e9f499744ba6cc2ea/64060362922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079b24f26a38---jozedizigibafekaforo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c117f8a3f3b---14257743823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citytrafik.nu/images/file/86326175051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608abacf01207---vidumukevojajutaresoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/vogodom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30f86a9ac031263adb8d607952f0489c/gigudutufuriraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rpv-drachten.nl/files/file/95110511752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gotoko.com/cmsv2/upload/files/10710086021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c97e7cdc5c---87173348733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexkarvan.com/cache/fck_files/file/82699143875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ef105938a02b3e653aa1c08b879a08e/magelarusixeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c04c6af798c7ab390b410927d231eb9/13060389065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+amen+meanPDF 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_off0000f168.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF168 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001097f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1097F 10268 bytes
SHA-256: 47264aa276c68977e7528d9d59c64ed9bc1e5236682c70be40be01d8ba104503
font_02_sfnt_off00012072.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12072 18184 bytes
SHA-256: 60976a4eaa8d11f2b0021589cfcdc991984fa870ace0580c7a8d99d573aecb2b