Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c30f83f16c32b3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-08-11 14:48:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7290246c4b74f00a2fbe42e9a5e4877c SHA-1: 0f200399a8c5d48f1e065ebd91fdbe229954e711 SHA-256: 8c30f83f16c32b3edccaf8d3fcb72bac41e22d302bd155a045557d04efb7d975
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations. The presence of multiple external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic indicate a likely attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or distribute malicious content through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ef48da4ed7---gurizuwupemavip.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/91202732470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxflowfans.com/userfiles/file/25633676456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedule-plachty.cz/files/file/nivunibakivazovivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nexidia.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa49dcc359125085884e5b860e793a65/77104391612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanipacific.com/attachment/file/zagijizabofumizuseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.halpellet.hu/userfiles/files/44021001142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fd4d684c68d29dc9c0f0a1d71f74c07/xaposaxoseximutusupixuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fipjp.com/userfiles/file/46269635823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/21207516306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snailgame.ru/upload/files/20210811125252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b1c4c38ac---mabokud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecableapp.com/FCKeditor/FCKimgUpload/file/96256357361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ridendo.cz/files/file/wikexapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://statsale.com/data/upload/ck/files/43413733792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9c1c63b91eefebb2b9b7c3f21670044/38225807180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gdri52rcpfr2jcjgl00grbbstd/janaromifulowokenizegari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soft-pro.hr/upload/datoteke/nugaximumib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ae3a94575---21383722439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifecare4all.com/upload/files/97761415781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec504b46bb2---47679547618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160965ec425c1b---54459037467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orthodoxnews.us/file/malebowovuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razvozka24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a67caf1132e3448c46578b1e38e5549/vizaladuworobuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=atheros+qcwb335+specificationsPDF 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_off0000de5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE5A 11192 bytes
SHA-256: cfb39d328471607cb1a9750a179adef4526cf4aced036965149384cd3facc97d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f873.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF873 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011085.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11085 18720 bytes
SHA-256: f6308fec0958680f3219159e8e537cc310cc871b425612d618f98de247c17040