Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8cb25df05b8d571b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-08-08 22:55:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ffd284a271f916d6d0f1e87ab255b5db SHA-1: 162756235e191ad62a649a8e362e9b73f7e22d3c SHA-256: 8cb25df05b8d571b4731abe84e9d2ad5dd28414f08d05be859c1cf2782cf6a9e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a visual download button further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+late+bloomer+full+movie+download PDF link annotation
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43ec82199e43893ef9547a2fd8d64b59/novozuzetotafazupimaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5be751edcf3675b0e4a3d51d88a9645/xupiwiwizikoluxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamo-tato.ro/userfiles/file/63827384628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/600d824318c502317f91029ad51ce741/99013458694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27e0e329042319840e35f99b1296a732/47726381666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.fr/userfiles/file/romufuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9ea06dc68b9535f3cf0ca80a4945fc6/bolororo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coolingrealestate.com/your-home-cleaner/FCKuploads/file/xepofibananafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4270244d2bb8440c345c1648129f27b8/rutozidobosiwajur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47008c473cfc9b46ead326b8b64f5e87/wepesofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1eoak53peqis0rjkkqss3jarr3/97175407496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/60002422877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almondzwealth.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/tiwulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77636ddcd952cc3d297375deb198e19b/kixubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/28603085960a8c2c2df35d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab7ba67b859---88036266590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6061707993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bearings.vn/images/ckeditor/files/81583013284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koopmankennedyfeller.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/mebevizaxodulufam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/468956bc94d6b37b013f87dafc393db3/kexifareludijimur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160efd7ed222b2---34712166972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenlakepaint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13133831861.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f6f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6F2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010f09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F09 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 9036dce638b5ca8cacc1cb3d570c1c5c5678e380205fa157510226c3ab1b6967
font_02_sfnt_off000127c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127C1 16920 bytes
SHA-256: e38081e4a5a2d3524813d9ee211ee83d2bbcd021cc70b0367a7ad4e52d1efdbb