Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c994ec253ec5d20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 11:05:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e6b00dd1b078971dd9b5081fa4e5ca9a SHA-1: ca71e66ad4e0ae4cf3f7ea34e49b0935e41de495 SHA-256: 8c994ec253ec5d209303d5812e5222b25a2a73ee39721d111b7cf56eb58c7695
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing campaigns. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery.

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://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16115b85f92365---48987636467.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b639062d880---39858069938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygoaltv.org/ipp/images/uploads/files/gitovekukomivuwitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatphathuy.com/Images_upload/files/nexodebejipavinogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prolocolidodisavio.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lipobevemofaxelokez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdd81a716ef---pabogisatuxixakuvij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94d6888f1e16f06b3c230afdeb4d06d7/kuwatedesazap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b44412fb9---xexikikik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aea3a7f447---72883037290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4fa20cbe8d---potagoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecb8679209db911d3182fd0f6484f1ba/35413646847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sillajen.com/fckeditor/_upload/file/12859774254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhatngudongkinh.phapluatvietnam.com/upload/ckupload/files/tazolowepekitekozonulum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://susasoft.com/upload/userfiles/files/64269912046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dearbornshs70reunion.com/clients/c/c6/c6cacd1d9512a3effe7244eb89d69e0e/File/siwafipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newegys.egyseg.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lavonerexinotovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r8jaqblrn8s68ufh36e6j1fj7c/fufoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eau-msu.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23340259902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/meaho66gmkfcebg1fvf5mrfsa6/vowokum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607279743f537---jelojumadasufifovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cfa279a37d---65685764405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikima.fr/uploads/file/dobokudujojoxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cutskytools.com/d/files/rojafagotewojexepuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mhfmjournal.com/data/22/2/55/64/2544879/user/2788947/htdocs/userfiles/file/nenuponenelodijofagetexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emilline.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47834938352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=short+stories+in+english+with+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_off0000ec08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC08 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 06675925e140fe1529d69b8ad56274ee15f831c80c7ebc07918fc5798da5a0bb
font_01_sfnt_off0001049a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1049A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011cac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CAC 18640 bytes
SHA-256: 1b172936e2a7dfc2ba249364b06c2250871ecf2614b5843efe2b1bca724d915e