Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8bfd386c0c8f4462…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-08-07 23:11:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: a9db5b73200e35a3e156e5e369db6f0f SHA-1: ea44b75739fd84db577835bf41effdb4895a0a57 SHA-256: 8bfd386c0c8f446229bcd5a810b45a201b07c008e6c90e977dc7cd91504bb116
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=afinador+de+viol%C3%A3o+cifra+club+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://energo-market.ru/sadm_files/suduruvozunizuxogogagesow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3918ca4b3aa591bfd0b82f9c53aa6ac2/52714655992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/510a9d3e6a635cf713175363b3715fff/buvugizoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagumul.com/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210627131521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091abd76be6e---86806715146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160988677a504f---77775965553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e62c8180128---21600407282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37d8f81a52d43998e97ac54dbdf7fdf2/40596974068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tedvandergulik.nl/userimages/file/24646863167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fa2f69027906c261a19877aa52c338f/82360803075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comobrew.com/newsite/images/user_uploads/file/89562951496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mia0llodqolt57rff1i13eev36/sodalizexanowoletax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ceb38f0b134d212cb865e3a5315006d/77354935465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/72015937753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8ed0ff379c---62379736313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/111fbc7f243530dbac46b2d117d7ea8d/82899582090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armenia4d.com/contents//files/mepigam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylekd.ru/files/jijewofugugopekixan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rayzerfamilyreunion.com/clients/0/08/08e2d5bcffca37c2e1a82d364f4296c6/File/30119745731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b658bc7d73---9938611554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://georgeandmaryjones.com/clients/f/ff/ff66b05efb8f16ea353d8e6908bb1429/File/kaledijixugivofelol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gites-les-bardots.com/userfiles/file/niwikatoxujafonibexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://circolodelpistone.ch/userfiles/file/sarozida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36558f7cbcd67cc45e8e187a5ecaaab3/mokasumusatonewade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2fc521c2c9---tetiramuzosutinijexoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ea78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA78 19400 bytes
SHA-256: 1c3d9c52138f89435e7e063e53bf8def5d0dea0abe0f4c2a2a553e78e6019e7a
font_01_sfnt_off00011b5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B5D 10992 bytes
SHA-256: f764e58a210a0961f5fb86bc63fa1d969bda612ba2c7484591a4d4fab510e76d
font_02_sfnt_off0001344f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1344F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1