Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8cc0a4268e37cc1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:05:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 8acf7248ace07f4dde5259f1deaaca97 SHA-1: aeb30a159e627917dc65b11b70eeed89772b2756 SHA-256: 8cc0a4268e37cc1ee267a3c8876da453fb1ba7dbfbddad250118b92d2a3416fb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of these links and the nature of the hosting indicate a potential phishing or SEO manipulation scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d24c33c99990b5e94529cbf0b352c6e/24131938715.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rbm633gricaf5nqmlla9id753h/72026669469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.org/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/mizurododelenapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b55f215249fd9a6041981bd0a0955d6/32734223942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a365ba0bfe8---84455006184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/8826956374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd4f61bfe7e---99192323251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brukspec.pl/upload/file/34493939122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608abaa13abc7---87609566745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084150014997---juterunoxabijikowixamas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af5e4dd1160---66642073842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glina-master.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kowasutatatexixasov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digilit.ir/basefile/digilitir/files/subivujurojagebowoluli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cc6c9aa5ec---tepapoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9289119465bd466216ac887a2edd8a9/dibevakarubojobixipalul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camonetinternational.com/files/file/56820613591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haltia.mx/sii/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54458703969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077e84b4da3e---nasitunajuxivaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shlawllc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/dusoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4f713961281cd4eaf523cc2aabfbfb1/duviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cyklo-wellness-penzion-palice.cz/content/zusakurefadefikatapezit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ceded96nj1sdcp98b2fv77d6uv/82435259630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607768bb8dfc9---77250470105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e135f6bbc96404d43c8a077d352eb6f/gedoxesidujepizelusutafor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dom4m.de/userfiles/files/vomubitowuxagurawigewawuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=tipos+de+suturas+veterinaria+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_off0000d46b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD46B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC7D 17444 bytes
SHA-256: c0bd715351de07e0b9684986958d99df10d03da429b73d002836f1e27b193b95
font_02_sfnt_off00011810.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11810 10576 bytes
SHA-256: ad351a76581649cf050f5674faedff3955ee27a3c375b4f88f9521165bd3b6d3