Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c01d27eafd0e1cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-07-01 16:46:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: e407651c75e3a48107b6e6e25cb2979e SHA-1: bfff4402d505ebaec540432312cc9f456d5c7372 SHA-256: 8c01d27eafd0e1cc3f782a0f02bfd8f79b40bcaa2bdc9d112f8c5fd52e723342
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs indicates an attempt to track user engagement, common in phishing or malware distribution campaigns. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns strongly suggest a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=watch+drive+me+crazy+online+free+123movies PDF link annotation
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b67d254c34---kikadakakilomurisazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908a746bed1---bagidusezifazorelanuzuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c91f5f56c85---59200979762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d0e82baedb---25293423278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcifirsatlari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca690575ed---kopebizazegefugok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watthaistuttgart.de/userfiles/file/2227396510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/6578525707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095f0abe9ad7---givejetor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/799b74451c97d9c40b7653bda99487aa/93620690167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b071721d3---22231523188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/avb9660vcuprnjjkm4bi72h1ph/samexomafosorovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovegabal.net/fckeditor/_upload/file/nadazigutijejufigutewut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khangvietdn.com/uploads/file/80201444951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079ff42a55fc---kubizunadebijivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tradeweb.es/userfiles/file/25008961165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/44500161652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe5f6959e6771272b494b2ff102fa018/40568211742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charugarware.com/DEVELOPMENT/charu_garware/uploaded/userfiles/file/vasoped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9e20081ab4c491f8fc59842298b3286/59141518551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7519114b643ce4fc0950b36c57b7ff7b/jugifipeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/30283924272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49b6253be9100d943882abfd3cf5f777/vuvenekavesemisekudovoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160830877586d5---37974374426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maturana.cl/upload/file/sosezomifonagemev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b21597f836aadc43cf3e9785f2559e4/nurufasake.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_off0000f3eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010c02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C02 11316 bytes
SHA-256: 090bfff905d01111c486ec177f44e339b32e1855771aa0d762302e936d3025c6
font_02_sfnt_off000126a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126A7 18064 bytes
SHA-256: ec62cdabf89cc31d0264f19833eff74c34a841b4d5370035b24727c6f0dd48ca