Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c8d833373d54449…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-23 14:29:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 52e0089ac332d20557fad23d095015b8 SHA-1: 01325407c51e105773387168adab4e776be08dc1 SHA-256: 8c8d833373d54449fd6148da722b904ea7fad9e1099e5c116d289ba814241c14
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 as a link farm, with several URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan variant. The file's structure and embedded URLs suggest it is designed to lure users to external sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614287426eddb---4762508400.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://er-cardiff.com/eurostyl/photos/file/dutad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boras-sjuharad.boj.se/uploads/userfiles/files/92132579415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwangallant.com/uploads/files/202109210243329773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiachuankeji.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-23/20210923083841133997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akademia-jedenastka.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/kuburekewunakaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicyazd.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37349239308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sfssb0oka6nrfksku0l28mgfml/40478035452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olgapolyakova.com/files/files/bumevidesiraxedasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lactopad.com/uploads/files/mituz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocash2u.xyz/userfiles/file/wumesemijebulade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3f398c9abb14c6c670faa03b1dcf48f/5439995955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daearesort.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210906_1FC65938B23C53A1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161412ab7ce03a---76606939890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyediajandekotletek.hu/mvc/userfiles/file/zufolajafeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scuderieverdina.it/scuderia/userfiles/file/45526666662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaziogluenerji.com/images_upload/files/wepobimopomujejinibajegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://champagne-marc-chauvet.com/images/files/4395291455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montagnobozzone.it/userfiles/files/lokiropetedotom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://revistaspontan.ro/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/pimusikapub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnarch.it/userfiles/files/kedagolabokuruzox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nordavril.com/userfiles/file/62339130910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hicoweld.com/shop/fck_file/file/movoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keluargamimpi2.com/contents/files/24046117650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arndt-fahrschule.de/userfiles/file/17190911047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ildungrice.com/fileupload/fckeditor/file/dekoverawekepejuzole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.autoservis-hubatka.cz/admin/upload/ww/file/2981056546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=yahoo+email+settings+for+androidPDF 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_off0000d9f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9F7 17676 bytes
SHA-256: 28526a7dd55c9508da2b5b86703d138140499c36fc8d82e74d4be3dde78e22c4
font_01_sfnt_off00010781.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10781 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 5a4ecf5aa2d09bb8b2892b94a9c137922a24db35fc98cc9c96cdffaed6c80f8c
font_02_sfnt_off00011ff3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FF3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1