Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c4e2d09b552dff4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

140.7 KB Created: 2021-07-14 10:55:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3854d3a70b5892982338810e50a47c1a SHA-1: d827e93b213f1a9bd4b5cecef115636c3fbca96c SHA-256: 8c4e2d09b552dff446cfa3e46568b4672246517b947372230dcf20fe30f1c883
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URIs and a link farm on disposable hosting further supports a malicious distribution pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9941

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://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160781f7e98081---68658482961.pdf
    • https://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tuupjgufsugjknmmleom8ffd5b/zedada.pdf
    • https://zhansq.cn/upload/file/danasosanav.pdf
    • https://fentesmakina.com/paket/upload/files/pugutotutiditolutu.pdf
    • http://kaupa.cz/userfiles/file/90321385256.pdf
    • http://tms-operation.com/upload/files/nuvotisegorosi.pdf
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a859572a08b---26074446979.pdf
    • http://okwecare.com/usr/userfiles/files/zadudipufavixuwepekigazaf.pdf
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0da120d223---3303761819.pdf
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e033fd2a2b82cf8b0feee254d7cb76b8/21783133323.pdf
    • https://b2cexpressdemo.com/userfiles/file/garegowuwovupij.pdf
    • http://oldtimerclub-thueringerberg.at/images/file/tedisina.pdf
    • https://bloomeng.com/uploads/rudome.pdf
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074217e1b2c6---vesanepiwuxugaligumalux.pdf
    • http://nusratali.com/userfiles/files/86446855063.pdf
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b898b222fcd---1778912155.pdf
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m2964tjfrclnvu5l4022dmhkpi/23475474405.pdf
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/566cd59cf8ca0bb6d2611d91a6dd82b2/pesonanoluvesu.pdf
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fc3bf8e505de19ca259ea06edf0e7d8/21855110110.pdf
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57ea978cd305b0e2734f2a949c49fc84/bexunaridojagelexala.pdf
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20mivmrbiapqamhfrohmjd6pep/11235981553.pdf
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086dbe21af85---69631488959.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=the+meaning+of+specific
    • 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_off0001cac2.bin
e04af1f3fe85c2b5a8aa743587fb14c25f519e9e0f74e4f646fbce737abd5b80
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CAC2 16356 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001f543.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F543 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00020d5a.bin
c9eb29972b7d663bb6eabbd5806021f00217fe71685e09f1fd469507fbdaedf0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20D5A 10644 bytes