Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c7109e7fc7782de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-07-03 08:22:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 64dcdaaf2841d7127fa00d281ff2a2c2 SHA-1: 123d218f75bcad69b04ae9554a5111df017690e8 SHA-256: 8c7109e7fc7782dec543f0e71e9a4471c724e18699ba5ba4f3dd08fd9d711e1a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=plural+form+of+way PDF link annotation
    • http://imailbox.nl/images/uploadedimages/file/19607033889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082264764de2---89034249660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapenya.cat/imgjovesnaves/file/dejobumivowes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094cbcb86a24---97132711295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609af41e64f8b---wuwunasenowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af69878604e---sejepezegujivodiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsp-oblspl.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jugewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pou92d285nud5ngqhj201kooo9/51912720434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097c0605d88e---90111923172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160749ea9b1717---78417285270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ddservice-bmw.pl/userfiles/file/4595742630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecogestval.com/userfiles/file/liwudemuzivibizuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heninrealty.com/userfiles/files/13728720135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ff1eeb456180608b5c1e433a7a27342/diboxonaxufawedosogazape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaffebba2apgigwiiececnggk9e4k.xn--p1ai/pict/file/88563569003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fded8ea10312b3df4cbe5b44746909b6/zatobov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wintec-samu.hu/uploads/files/xevomoxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savoie-outils-coupants.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/woliwawisudef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16abe46d1840c5f8b21dd8ffb1e90f88/teweninomizewopiwadivot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b008cfc7b39---gevofafivipopexigomizol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086583814b2f---miwoxilixodaxanupabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soupworld.de/upload/file/26942483978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguetransfer.com/files/file/77642823778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://used-machinetools.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/duzozazas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608517e78596b---sipaluner.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eaa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAA1 16380 bytes
SHA-256: 51519c4a8e18b3b7337ece72dac33052d0e08e4515fbb781a95e0198ec25c057
font_01_sfnt_off00010132.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10132 18204 bytes
SHA-256: f7caa118a2d752136af9428b89fef30286429cf1451ca12e2d694f7fd4063f2c
font_02_sfnt_off000130b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130B9 10084 bytes
SHA-256: b5a44cd844c0fa9007062b33748f69dcebfc5766da88385b805ce69d9d537a24
font_03_sfnt_off00014749.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14749 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1