Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c1362b6fd43204f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.0 KB Created: 2021-06-25 19:46:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a5e92ab7031b86d032b5eb5a1a85de63 SHA-1: 32477522056ec2952f4db1ffae00132a9b8ed9aa SHA-256: 8c1362b6fd43204ffb90f0198a7cf05a993c7b28c180794d0b4b678f2ac3f178
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The embedded URLs, while numerous, are the primary indicators of this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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 http://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210517210127634.pdf
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb87f83c1a5---20645221855.pdf
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/octeug1mgp0rhu8gmbgpku2vg5/xigodez.pdf
    • http://12shio5.com/contents//files/xizoni.pdf
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160868ff787221---febuminaxowijupukox.pdf
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d08962d3b58423da3802c042ba509bbb/depijezivikomijoj.pdf
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pa2juqe3jdb67b5o6vmqshk2c7/robojovosiwimoniwuxenexof.pdf
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/941990204609ad301902b3.pdf
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba8c515c797---jazogumagufepenete.pdf
    • http://ccforum.kr/uploads/file/1621643644.pdf
    • https://foulardfotografando.it/file/17275941068.pdf
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/548tkcj3nsjkq9tn7lf8rco8e9/90767854048.pdf
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/424nnfnmhpm4ukqdr3fqfpfhe3/90225767013.pdf
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160742497cef29---86380378418.pdf
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0492451f96d5474bce12a3157ff95bd6/28024419860.pdf
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8kulos8pdkpd8erc6grn7li46g/12765721379.pdf
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160713213959a6---rekobival.pdf
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0916001ddf---97343999851.pdf
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90715288f2efa7285229503b36c680fa/5214585165.pdf
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098853081b16---joxuforamivilupizibu.pdf
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b911da0dd98---faxewulit.pdf
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4522bc0f5---guwuzifomire.pdf
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd0d0fbeede---26748323973.pdf
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073673912fcf---tazuw.pdf
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099e9aa34d7c---mesanozupobebezunamit.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=icebreaker+questions+for+students
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000108ff.bin
f06ac3e09413b99afd1271dcffa236ca202b5c2f323ceb01dae2c49cd1b5abe9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108FF 17260 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000135b6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135B6 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014dcd.bin
4eb0f83658bd48dbd45511278c1249935130e2510bd21d1dacb1f4333a001f34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14DCD 10852 bytes