Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c5b55f51f1939f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-07-04 11:56:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 31003831cbf242b9edd36a20dfc6165f SHA-1: 15ea17d853637b8af99abdc8ab8a153b3c1224c1 SHA-256: 8c5b55f51f1939f8e6cde32150560eb5dfc7ef5e09ad3cee2b627237f1943b20
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection confirms its malicious nature, identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=should+ought+to+had+better+exercises+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9395f50ab53aa4ab90c77397af713830/5865891650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vokalensemble-vocembalo.ch/userfiles/file/fomuwuvadesanutufaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/stdnihqq2gdc0pabks6l6f4pj9/9452695009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607300fb366a7---xirerodoketuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160764660c8e53---54236350125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ti4rqhviqv0e1aue79itkd8a95/pexirola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoplan.su/userfiles/file/baxawomukoroxibitivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a02f40700e3e8dfc8681dcf7b2d959ae/wajogufesuxirabiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6l3efdpnkkmbeloao76hpr4lbr/4517167710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitanova-cattery.com/upload/file/nenazedowanovofopumuvov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/xelazebafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olympicwroclaw.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/mebopegemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d0abca99d---92493760130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b3dab2e4d---31099764361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkinshigh1961.com/clients/878968/File/36224936852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e11abba33bf---17804962852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27a589b628dec1e8057581cc4f656e04/lobonum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd439f4b11a---fasexere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074cb5dce7f1---38386554420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bce7321cf13---7386283418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cce26b2099229d8244071b246149eb73/migebofijapek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acdbeaa5c8e---gejudorurirenulapena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160759b82180f5---fidobevumujevefuzew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zionapostolicministries.org/uploads/file/tezesupupisodukewanuxil.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_off0000d469.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD469 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC80 11212 bytes
SHA-256: 7a115d6e928fa05f8fb2e331f0fbfa7f16cf8a6c1b95f13cc93e040e0b868851
font_02_sfnt_off00010678.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10678 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 7f1f4ef3f5af2af3af20df855c65553c7ffe96e9cd0d0b5983606b340e47ccd4