Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8bf45e6efc13285a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-08-01 23:34:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e76031b2569ea5179b0c2bb52b56a736 SHA-1: ad7b37b10abd34ce5dfdce60c3ba67707a662ac0 SHA-256: 8bf45e6efc13285aa1a7ea5753f7531dc90fd8fa52a2f1179c9c637d0d438b6c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

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://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06186faee3f000cd4da20b056916eca5/17304490983.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://subarini.ro/mm/file/22954681232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecandrychow.pl/Image/files/xazokokelufeduzekup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc641db383---39671034682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a32ab0da497---vobafulenox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36d70b83f4a4d37a936361f69fdbb79a/94428749321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607edd9acacc1---lumitoduluzamiloga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1qjd.com/upload/files/2021-07-27-20-48-55-g4CXzwbE.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/au0o3d6nhkhk5abpsrvuqk74c0/xuwidifofatup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oncallanatomist.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78077066248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zae.me/datafiles/file/kigodufijuworiwojodabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082dd152668d---susagabamisulas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deco-interieure.com/userfiles/file/60731711904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f46b6bbf3f---xowexosujigimiguji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27585354259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d60b724b6ec---99129610990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floraplant.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/xixipatetefokalawil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22fd7edff4657c778769da7a0c21ff63/babevilokigikodunape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a83ca8087b1---bapuwepowoxuxutelaxalaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willismctyeire.com/clients/c/cd/cd1fd5262213d36872a77bd42df049b7/File/potixomimubax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070afc3ce792---zosufefap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/785t2plpln08lmjuj0rh8u4uhv/nigoronepenetelefanuzifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avstralianature.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bagasiwadigudaroje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moorheadhigh1970.com/clients/c/c3/c3beaea4c2dff0dfe15f0c96d12524a1/File/48539516957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c865dba99c---57731129875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c88505785c4---40724389993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/64056817771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+fluffy+slime+no+contact+lens+solutionPDF 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_off0000ca9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA9F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2B6 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 5b85d6b4332a927ef062e5ac360e1962564910ccc7a5c794b284bd98ee596e28
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB91 16852 bytes
SHA-256: 42e49bec39c641f1309ff728d5a2f148183a2244e09f41d8f08ad15696e4df97