Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ba62db1f8e434c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-07-16 12:14:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 97307563ef28935683c929c5130e8edc SHA-1: 47b22819b448232bd602663487386d77002a1e35 SHA-256: 8ba62db1f8e434c1a7281851b94c6e38218da551a376d1f7a1b4f0055d235b65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware or lead to phishing sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

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://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bdba6dfe2d---54250165296.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dekoblickfang.de/userfiles/file/32585070162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolesnikov.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68956734476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2d230ae7b5---jazamonetupagawojunimum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knshzj.com/CKEdit/upload/files/4254065697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9041808e27d04ee3b156ba175fa245a6/48762473482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1326566e19---fuwisolatidakukefipax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://risme.vn/files/90852489700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e79d1622fb3---zuxidikim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608903f963089---gewopulebem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bda3dd0f959---ronuxisigirasina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee7f1f3c2ee---22190702502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laclonghotel.vn/upload/files/77707460449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tourpon.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210619_88DA7208667C755B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d14d2c957e---63712745980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf3cc5c00f---39761511780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mintedimages.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77482800770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607313c4a25ab---32038824566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba1a29f37e---vilugavojurened.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valubil.com/public/uploads/cms_file/cms_files/ruwuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb8223ede10985af5c0889642fbcedfd/82899972792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a649056340a---fivixix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/005d02bb4378d112778351695ef6d1cc/siwagexesulidofudoleso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nrbpv6u5aolpep59ilm99j3pap/xebixugeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=outboard+misfire+under+loadPDF 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_off000103c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103C8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011bdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BDF 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 269187852ec3d6040e36b2980f4bf80353ed28bdeec45767373be7ff932503cc
font_02_sfnt_off000134ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134AC 16872 bytes
SHA-256: a18185721985132642119296d5cc4bedce8264d0d6883d0cf23d63824ed9eac5