Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c8e821061d12e4c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 01:31:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 244c8fbf56461afcaa1c4b7465b2ef6f SHA-1: d2109e7df6cef90baf516c7b07c898fbd9164eb6 SHA-256: 8c8e821061d12e4cd8be9da229d9624cab514eb062a4354bb7e99fa5ffd92b92
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users. The presence of link farm heuristics further supports the conclusion that the document's primary purpose is to direct users to external, potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb7ngmlqtencqg0ivpjb1tg5ub/vopizanopulegepifumovoje.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4728c76249---nudoxopebozoxemidopemajep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursverwaltung.fit-n-essen.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57000949747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actaviaserica.org/board/file/files/lofujem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhxndl.com/uploadfiles/files/befiwabusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3e4a0b7844---74523105005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catequesisnavarra.org/guiarte_userfiles/files/munototur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gptools.net/userfiles/file/koduwabowerulagolewopapep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobrasekacka.cz/userfiles/file/17269712828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c191297e0514d460a6779950ed0723e/62057762295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cefvj2rc4q3rvc8o4ntr1lt8fd/kazegawekebadoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68b040387c0fc3afc51ecc12a473e26e/pixijejuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bud-drog.pl/userfiles/file/45952502911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/41726051517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b52b017ccd---tilowemefibewukaxavugomaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5c564d60bca0cf0f6aa9f72bbf91157/jiperozewizeravaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad5e151468d---vabuxuwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hkovg0gkvpejs7i8vifpe9l2b0/fifutijiliwodekowipuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrzservices.com/uploadfiles/file/kozuxofujidekuposaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bk.knu.ac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wezakilezizibafefewosamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/56999346357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b731a4ce237---dapofufeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161180bc5d3c88---20054061286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b580e9aca---61214486929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a447232abc15ba17854244203beedc0d/21694672127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=cover+letter+for+resume+example+pdfPDF 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_off0000eb81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB81 17704 bytes
SHA-256: f1f100639640acf0a5b4a699a5bff41e228093aeafede8a0423a1ece1eb6306e
font_01_sfnt_off0001198a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1198A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000131a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131A1 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 4dee818db42f222bbc2b7f780312d0946ac3eae7ec5031dc47bc467500c8e7c4