Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8be62d1ba988b187…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 04:46:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a7e88a9e336a674e926b995cc18c5cb9 SHA-1: 2c973d1ed22c6dbed73987d737f96e68edec3268 SHA-256: 8be62d1ba988b18706200eff498ef0ebff11da51271fc8cbfa6a047f52e60d19
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 http://theemasternetworker.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wefuvezitij.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cca1a04e2924791fe5bc929b926a5ea/23417907012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a50ec61c7b7---kaderuboriwaruliwarufuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stef-nancy.fr/upload/document/49643359342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b7e772a12e9---8749540351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premium-house.uz/images/file/5812558696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bociany.sk/media/file/bolasowibepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d999d00fb88a570ef29dd266726036b/57746160642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613177a75f70d---96519417481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cbs-emballages.com/upload/file/jimobesurubul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertsystemgroup.com/file_media/file_image/file/fekatikasomokoxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070705d37dfa---26098829819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0mbkv8utunul13g7op96u6at1/kidewux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca491c73ce9aac670b6e008eba1bff0a/15298019519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/lelerefafelosaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c724c44397b---sutasininagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fletcherfamilyreunion.org/clients/52745/File/24964178493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/75100847450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feldmann-spedition.de/pics/userfiles/file/xagakofebifasufulasaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terracell.pt/images/file/bevipitidafozuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/2193603519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didopack.com/files/57758787033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111e07ed8f79---tapuvuzirizitagis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aaf944feb6fa92a8c4d2d4a49aacc700/bejabozuwuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=thomson+east+coast+line+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_off0000dfb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFB1 18240 bytes
SHA-256: 57de87112d81228762efbc7c968dc6098f93f48c28ee8907b9cd2da149a24a0c
font_01_sfnt_off00010eaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EAA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000126c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126C1 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 5e8689da1d311489f573f4ed521ebaa44d1331279fff13f0b97c86a415bec9fb