Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8badb5ac2679b526…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 15:01:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: bcb2f35f4a13bfad1e5b50d4fb56a979 SHA-1: c936be6fdd881f86ac2cf028e7ea423ef9f3524d SHA-256: 8badb5ac2679b5266886d84d6a42a0524e37eaa376cab6c3a7e7882fd0d67b89
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, indicating a tactic to obscure the true destination or host malicious content on disposable infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af300408bdfb6faf8348b8510944ecc6/96407079423.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e636ecaed8---39703777834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lescourailleurs.com/upload/editor/file/35845438523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dianacb.cz/userfiles/file/3290645639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wannawwannie.pl/userfiles/file/lufanodivelivuvenekis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dekoblickfang.de/userfiles/file/43732331858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8331f9c99e358b9301e6cdcba2b7d571/titigapijokutim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/golugonitari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nvsrolko.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jizojibinajubepug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100af56de997---neweroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://global-product.org/CKEdit/upload/files/zivotokida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0a1654d09f---xusukizegozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://air-separation-supplier.com/d/files/jivemifumamuzusan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cfacgroup.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/guxugiluxebalureso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://art-lan.ru/uploads/assets/file/wopupuwuluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epiphanych.com/images/file/gagav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3ec295c75850f530b44fd1af45b28e4/tafadexunakituner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medrea.ru/upload/files/30068867693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/68416470771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610dbff65d420---38187768015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weclassof86.com/clients/6/6d/6dc59c75684a9be5e3a4726337e2fa3a/File/23658799486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3960ec0ee93fde6fa3fc38a41e6177a8/49571256081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ac4491754e---xiwovuwawabiwusuzoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deckdreams.ca/clients/3/34/34055ef41782f8f15ebf372c1e39ecad/File/motogaranokim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=unblocked+games+21PDF 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_off0000e351.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE351 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 535c104056f05a9d4d5853961e4addd535134686148be1574a9754cfa4d7e651
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC31 17540 bytes
SHA-256: af8555a98bf22a76d35fe29d674dbdb63a47cb0e08e7885371f6adc88ddd98ab
font_02_sfnt_off0001297a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1297A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1