Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b9292f1b9919e43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-07-07 17:24:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4c98543da2c5ee7c89bd78dc58f41f60 SHA-1: 37c3839aa119f42bcd2331cf44c64e4ed8be9e37 SHA-256: 8b9292f1b9919e438ae36e64a819b19053a2ff60ceb6fd109b7cacf9e003024b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a social engineering attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.cpro.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160761735dea0e---zivozamaxelal.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da623f74661---69107822028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svsteinfurth.de/radsportfiles/file/5963824115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4ff3099f5---18097426335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyhanool.com/ckupload/files/4666853096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/59037702580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d863348a85a---74880195241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/amvs59e7tur616ua5ktd5ia043/busetedibudafuxeliduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingssuffolk2.com/uploads/files/jabek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160723846c39da---nisasutonefiteripujawak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebd7e651148e85ec27af832f60cade51/famijemenasiduro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5ca5238db2---xabavijobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alarisusallc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e0c2a663451078df8adca23e014d76c/rikupafagijasifofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33942r2sc9mrkjb9vf5gkko4a5/nopunejuguzitemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4978f538f7---65547526925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bo6bkfucuke23qkr7hjshk0o2g/zetiture.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c471ce9c69a1a9be5509464bbbb96fa0/mutadegif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4681045fdb---virikavomilevuwutidito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05bdd63c0cd48c44335618637ddfefa0/kiditidutukisigotute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e44dfdd594d---6468245870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medgarlci.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c12d4d08b2cd12f988fc5e68f6aaa728/3313221429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608607f011f47---vefozukazogakukulirol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/sevanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=white+paper+template+word+2018PDF 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_off0001001d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1001D 10964 bytes
SHA-256: eb45caae52b084ad57e40955c7c08f7eb1236431ce0742809122dd518f50db52
font_01_sfnt_off000119a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119A7 17356 bytes
SHA-256: 41d4c597fa0411e8f7169462660abfe0708c2a62185e983af713822b6a104b0d
font_02_sfnt_off0001463a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1463A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1