Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c144f2aa8869ae1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-07-04 12:12:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 89730d9e09a83229ee4317fff087ea95 SHA-1: 0e0e85228fa00bfbccc9cb57e397f89329c7defd SHA-256: 8c144f2aa8869ae141a68637d04a2cb1c033e24d821e0c6abc16dee5d89451cc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9927

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hot+heads+hermitage
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r78se4jq5207fma73an84f3kdn/walotez.pdf
    • http://www.emailposte.com/pictures/96794205179.pdf
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baf0e59bdf7---litadulosumepewedavulul.pdf
    • http://pokorny-podlahy.cz/UserFiles/File/lemomovoz.pdf
    • http://historia-bfured.hu/userfiles/file/77648523327.pdf
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14d04b82ef4e1f281bae0b4579e7db41/fotevonanejiravenape.pdf
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f2968e006---budojujifugeliwapuximume.pdf
    • http://karimeh.com/public/userfiles/file/wotimubosagunu.pdf
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ur5305hte117ebkbddnl9tgs5/9634884034.pdf
    • http://kimbuunguyen.com/uploads/userfiles/file/xuxidalefesofudorawaw.pdf
    • https://bczenekar.hu/files/file/xogajexupilalurax.pdf
    • http://cropscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/96903327203.pdf
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pl0idbfq1mpm3s2bd4lsq86q35/wuzudarugabezezi.pdf
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ade8f12e0a8---18692698253.pdf
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9l7kklc07n756bfi90vl52uj9/55723725539.pdf
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bff24690b2529be0084b0cb99e6da32/xusipofepakasapuwoleler.pdf
    • https://ikitellirezistans.com/upload/files/depesalesawabuguv.pdf
    • http://frezerovka.by/images/fxeditor/file/69638321529.pdf
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94ce04dedaf0c28f84c7707d969e5026/tilovadexamidaw.pdf
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4303ffbca66ce036d9d6795578fe8e2a/lusuxamuvovuk.pdf
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/68211927394.pdf
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/42130673086.pdf
    • https://detectiveoffice.net/userfiles/file/81791346447.pdf
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3de73cb2c9---dadupuzuxipa.pdf
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e6d368796f---34870092816.pdf
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c946.bin
356934e8ce177355af2102b8ff209666e66871c35b9d9d8dfc4e1fb7bd425550
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC946 17080 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5c3.bin
b033f7fcbcd390b2cb396fbb5f03ef01f7ca9afc151f9d9df21604321f961cfa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5C3 1948 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fec7.bin
f6f7cb167fae3a6b2d71885e2a962d659f7283f49ffac1d5347a58260681eec4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEC7 10536 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00011693.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11693 16792 bytes