Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c37765b069220f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-08-30 03:00:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 2a8c510983f4bcf5796719d83ed5fa38 SHA-1: 70d5e3e673be7eff3c12d4423b0e50c78727a3ea SHA-256: 8c37765b069220f5c024155dbc3ffaa36dcee18855f502de3d6c27c926334f8c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised CMS upload directories. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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=algorithm+for+brushing+your+teeth PDF link annotation
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62459b6f2395604139ec67d8dd8f7fd1/pozujubibilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd094e52b85---finaruxasaferajajox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39o5kiqr5e19f105qnpbh7fgfs/fitir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160a7bb33381c5---lebifewirakavawidoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://28777886.com/Lpf/UPFILE/userfiles/files/wejexosato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cycling-software.com/files/file/42561129733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a306414c7658f415e1fea7450c595bed/1230097540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musthighschool.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57965434164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70e10f6bd9caa2b30188a8f7f5f6ed38/8948163265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citadelcaralarms.com/userfiles/file/17006098524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/834374812d70f8889640775d87e1784b/kelijelon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dixietemporarystorage.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a751105b8dfc019a1153fe471a2b8cac/25564655718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kowel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1628995959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://embassyinvietnam.com/webroot/img/files/33114383101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camping-du-lac-dijon.com/fichiers/dofafaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imihwa.com/uploads/image/20210822/files/20210822051432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinegypt.net/userfiles/file/tidosajeresovun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d27fe090145---35226033161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c48cf3b71ca---xareneweveponuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609294f75cea2---fubuwoparuludam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f48664d16a93104b645e9626aace772d/96796989763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4de165b8115b284807e4669e5bed96e0/17439094945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c66f147d0fec8ddc4df3dd946fdf5e0/37081199660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volpatoebrum.com.br/_common/admin/scripts/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52441323978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ascinfratech.com/clientprojects/trading/file/jininaben.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c6c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dede.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEDE 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 2b5abc8cf37ac832ef0d90dd1d895ec504d7cb29c74d970181f7456f3ace515a
font_02_sfnt_off0000f7bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7BC 16320 bytes
SHA-256: 14fb145f31699fbe3ee33d34e8d581c9ff5f3173848ee41e39561b3f6f6ba3d2