Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c1895b7ff835195…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.2 KB Created: 2021-07-03 11:15:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 15de7ca1500aac8c2d4cec4760053f22 SHA-1: 567dbe5d4efe580038bbec0bc66eba2ff615c8fe SHA-256: 8c1895b7ff835195bd0890d3ca292b63e5b5bca9d69b6f3b9b21e0d3ba88ffb6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classification strongly flagged it as malicious. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9839

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=taught+tamil+meaning PDF link annotation
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e9fd057c11c7ec65893e4b49c10294c/648720335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5a5808292---sunapiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerocuki.hu/user/file/xanatufosawipiwolemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahsaipu.com/v15/Upload/file/20214291431253930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fl-forever.com/upfiles/editor/files/18611880419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f60f6ca4a8f06a324a429d82ae6e104b/zebidujojotasedepapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mispuntossaga.com/campannas/file/ruxonelabuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/dowurokivovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc472fe4d0e---63150270244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb2dfd603c8---49840635598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begemot-rus.com/uploadfiles/file/2021070205521273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/vefidinenafiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuhs1981.com/clients/8/82/82ca37c076ec4232796cb58ed009bb3a/File/10292272438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f97a4edfbf---23776963959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nandeestationery.com/userfiles/files/gapuravinun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerhouston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ddad39eb685ea44f2d2034083c7199a/79626181202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciattella.net/images/file/71995654015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc98c7c8da6---34524321825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4b97900e9b615422780736be8a9fbb7/77120539872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieompaysdebray.fr/lesiom/txt/imgadmin/file/medevuvapid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d339364c8f---62525045963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1cbe239b53---14787518206.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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off00015211.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x15211 18328 bytes
SHA-256: d9f5e66163d907df9b2c2f031b8906ab183602eda4757f3e8ef428a9cf922d60
font_00_sfnt_off0000e907.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE907 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001011e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1011E 10228 bytes
SHA-256: 59bf5ec219e931e4351772709778dc5309f6fdad25c87857cf55f8c065fc19f1
font_02_sfnt_off000117cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117CC 24064 bytes
SHA-256: 25415b98a5fb83b71b6532aedcaa7698696b984fe8b4bb96dfdc9fd608cc3923
font_04_sfnt_off00016fa9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16FA9 3464 bytes
SHA-256: a8161c2f5ba9235eb51b4fcc43b6bb219725019365cb8d38f9ec25dfe5ce54ff