Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c88fbeb50292115…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 02:11:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 355658ef4161aa20224d79c9c0002dac SHA-1: 6abc64a3e9244fd4d1c4e56e2660354f06d5def9 SHA-256: 8c88fbeb50292115c7b370e45d577271456422ee79a22007019ce20970185d81
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve as a distribution mechanism for phishing or malware, leveraging the compromised CMS uploads to host further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates redirection to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095d4f4796dc---seterilew.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45a344434f86d927d4236438b5e45cef/21920241046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/536e1914d0b48a220bbb2034fd537793/55712838390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrmhandling.nl/upload/file/lowazipoloxigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9uc34jo7eujbp54mj5n7622465/28630157718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gvpcmea7f57lgs1phs8iegq1eg/gokofuwexak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chistogood.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89426189894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pronobile.de/catalog/file/89699849323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/mabotatanurixetola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildpflanzen-planung.de/file/28836407007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9stc26793bf6ck3svp0sfpsqu3/20266515739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a071629257a---16221816303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosewoodcity.org/nbloom/fckuploads/file/vikozofuvaveduwub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/10317216352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20957e34a68ba495be99c7a3df1839d8/61348086818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc66ddb792---jelikigubawele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/46460117074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1f0777b01---belugejopoxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b5777637508e56fd97bbec20a8e442b/nunedumife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/jibiloruga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa908417142---98960564377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscbolivia.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/76220289150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rr5lchm50bhvgkbq8fhfamc400/mikasozob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kn1dmskria56h463mnm7bn3su6/zetinifotolod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77bd506dc0cce0707a2d177ff3e701e4/poluxovagixigajura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=top+places+to+fish+near+mePDF 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
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b4496cbf795a99a3a8293cf5e7e9806e302500e2d4355f1e724de1235d8f279c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA39 17424 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012779.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12779 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013f90.bin
ac75a58e0368bededbb47a4535c44f612df4ecbc321b3079d2c77d98a650d0c4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F90 10708 bytes