Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c55a38d2e774fc0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 22:08:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c5f20b7b95b3c36de45dc23949bddcf6 SHA-1: 8ebbca7a97f280ea1c5f50717cc30e53acd9fdcd SHA-256: 8c55a38d2e774fc001f3434f2f569241e12c44b96476dd60c9e16e7eaff8f497
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading malicious files. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of multiple links to PDF files on compromised domains suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://studioingtassinari.eu/userfiles/files/67590563958.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/18168376415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vestmorecapital.com/images/epost/68653464521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfekttorun.pl/pliki/78900717503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd65b68c189---26282540311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemmacapitalgroup.com/foto/file/bixuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8e75459908---90990072333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4rej9d10m2n06972c0dgvjhj8c/80149818676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgmorenanews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69263587901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eobliecky.sk/userfiles/file/rokunetididomitafedavug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martonelektro.hu/files/file/pazitirevapujugukuzafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608501d69973f---67842797798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wonikqnc.com/upload/editor/file/1623151587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v2aqtv1qb2bprk35igsp346r07/wakanuvududizosoweko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automotiveenergy.cz/userfiles/file/14065804001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sicilyontable.it/userfiles/files/vinawofifub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d73354c86---rosixamakunupomokalunolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/robogotusejajatim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carolstoecker.com/clients/c/c6/c60e280709801842a26e47e23f21f170/File/gagagafepumepatesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tramtronbetong.com/uploads/userfiles/file/88078954748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetaime-shop.com/files/16325050587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://career-id.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61241154420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ed4d44262---15245171410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skolicka.eu/foto/images/file/45332336512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=convert+xls+to+pdf+on+macPDF 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_off0000d7a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7A0 10888 bytes
SHA-256: d0c01f9d336063ca7847fe3b30f7cd84df680299b7cbd628a58ba85dc29cef73
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0EB 16744 bytes
SHA-256: 0946f02fe899cf702439f346a8dcc58facb0775a173338015797de17a4c7ea2a
font_02_sfnt_off00011c91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C91 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1