Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8bd75fad38684d81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-07-27 07:35:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 2dc3d0136f62e2f72fac0c372d0a940d SHA-1: 5ed0d652a6c15478a0cd7b9a659d1ff7b70c8d5b SHA-256: 8bd75fad38684d81347e5c2caf420e5c44162d9e686a2fe0347f98f7b12c6d9f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.012 Process Injection

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest this PDF is malicious, likely serving as a lure for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or downloader campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dea13dc9b8---ximazolelefanokakoviz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2059eab1e404c46eabca1a95b3189c4/didekatebika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bddaeb3be797366bb1b30e0afa7f2946/38464913202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085847338148---giveledifed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c345388f8805ca6d1e39016e859c90bc/81752697973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energo-market.ru/sadm_files/17149636562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/8320849502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vydavatelstvoklett.sk/userfiles/file/gilujela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5f2d3c4966---lonoluzejunub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsxr.hu/userfiles/file/79850953138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/91150529772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609860b3d3e37---fojijegirizonufosex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0e3dd7ee01---toxegozexefozexepozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u6022c3agccmvj66gmt6qrpup4/dakix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diedacorporation.net/freesiafiles/file/soduwobokolox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160795e567aa6c---gunejilal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5601250b4645f0862eab2c931079c2a/3582056517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/run3e2m3jn3ra9simo48lbqdc7/punoxuregarijalemab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19e593e21759b0361403f6ec880e46bd/kolisijoruwukukulunekul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mysilo.com/upload/ckfinder/files/galilupuwowiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bbeabd31f72a37c8b7c57aac5fe2d86/deruvabanotixuzokisubasoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/selef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quadocdao.vn/uploads/files/winurenozamusoxibabelok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moonlightmontessori.com/upload/files/71107619471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6ea1078b5b---32376139401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=applied+partial+differential+equations+david+logan+pdfPDF 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_off0000c52e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC52E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD40 16372 bytes
SHA-256: fcaf98b410851dd1d18002613a91ca9a158e20bf3775b062ad048bd23c2d2184
font_02_sfnt_off000107da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107DA 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 4b86551b2398139e1f4e4a26392a0c364ffd577c2bdeb648b7b214d51db77772