Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8be5bd3ac450c570…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 22:17:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 67a2ae39cef7af585399cf49ec2b8f41 SHA-1: 006b5fbf7052ca366ef92ef32e147ea8964c37f3 SHA-256: 8be5bd3ac450c5705333d1946ca508f81fd26afe4da48aae5bb5679e39acb8f0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae757a7541e---14229428246.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://movitecnic.com/ressource/site-image/files/71847493548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kentcliffordreunion.com/clients/a/aa/aa84b18e55fac3ff3c25336c5005d9e5/File/naniloganemul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cs-golfclub.com/ckupload/files/ginilebow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/patateniko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cr2tek.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/98656452311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhktn.at/images/content/files/gojoropomikel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indoshaolinkungfusociety.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fivuvujamuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e95b3a87a526cdc1a27e04923d093fa1/43390892137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.utn.ac.cr//sites/default/files/files/rudesevexosewavosituzom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/503832289d18bc80be2b250052cb1528/80384250062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giltmorestukko.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20764486353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rdsdealers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/berozapodegudojiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160857dc18fab4---48316821451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160998eee9fd70---31516430698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szolnokepul.hu/userfiles/file/pajal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkatcapceshpicpg3h.xn--p1ai/pict/file/8794666955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finadev-groupe.com/userfiles/file/mubowidiguvasakifibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiangzhuan.tw/upload/files/kogizapimiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carszana.com/image/upload/File/zofamitakusol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adimhukuk.com/resimler/files/35941224421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4bc744dc3e4f1dc2dbf5e2f0a157d1f/kewetevuwirigodob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=importance+of+data+collection+in+research+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_off0000bf76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF76 15592 bytes
SHA-256: 8243c9dfe6431bcca8a1379b23dc6156faeca5368c215b5d51f058edae6d5e8b
font_01_sfnt_off0000e66c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE66C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE83 10836 bytes
SHA-256: f269b5b7de711a027e136268fa64c76e8e85cc1d4920f9bd3cbde9ecae63f69f