Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c0ebbdeb323c231…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-07-25 06:52:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ceed682b679e2b0132ac44baebc39793 SHA-1: e9b7d0b1594b0832567f883eac16e1c32cf7aaa9 SHA-256: 8c0ebbdeb323c2310aeeadbcfa44771d95539cefb5cb9e5a786a353c79cb155c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a lure to download further malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to direct users to malicious downloads, potentially via JavaScript execution within the PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/580183a44a16896ffba359df19e017a1/52945850258.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e7ed677fd75fe545b53e3d13df0e48c/90439216544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/refitalamibemekug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9aab7f675---91583347426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drlalashow.com/php/billboard/uploads/file/16185264975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiesamadremarsala.eu/userfiles/files/97053927391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebb3be0b7e0539fba6640461c39c3bec/punigidenagafib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ea6re5m326nbhtaodk0vptvo6/mumajefazadepifogizovajer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/obmjboejtu0olqttpv4vocom8c/solomigikena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d075552788---68845650359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f807fb7fbcb---9698017296.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://bidmitt.com/img/files/file/gisib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cacc44cd420---46420260817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/6076927695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ottenburger.com/userfiles/file/37872911737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dnum2dtgokld09b7drd271ldu/jisuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyland-nsk.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lufixigezozuviwezirup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsong.vn/uploads/files/wunilupimiwawanadija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/1737858968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bet-balance.com/userfiles/file/lumodatakepadexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=se%C3%B1ora+fazilet+y+sus+hijas+actoresPDF 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_off0000e8b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8B9 20636 bytes
SHA-256: a3ffedf58a006d60f6a5d0b34600b15e511bdbac3623a93f1981ddd0315f41c6
font_01_sfnt_off00011b03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B03 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 2559f9970bd50ae4998dff50c00991494e3d5af44506a0aaebb5bf1b84457849
font_02_sfnt_off00013499.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13499 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1