Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8cc3a76b5e7298bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-07-03 12:52:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 4939284d4ea285f40718b64672e61dc2 SHA-1: e2ecbb33653211c8845e721a5ac3b5703f8077d3 SHA-256: 8cc3a76b5e7298bbe3bf6159bc35da694b5c2b64a40a3d236fa783eb489650fe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to websites that appear to be compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or lead users to phishing sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://gute-reise.ru/i/files/files/semidekepiwafiwutito.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fe71a07f2c3b0d36de8103a235e1f09/63434898606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d72fcd81e5b---welavibomaleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609323101041e---tevimegegazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotrusso.it/userfiles/files/63274790850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48e265f00e6b0a3df950442ce2407710/penomugegam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8f292359f4---januragerasege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h1aaebbkfib4a.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/49575239951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chi-kara.net/userfiles/file/xodasulozalitimokavaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d0a63c4b359111fa4889c3380e46e13/29183379631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e704a24ac3af190fbd179c638d7a878b/subavixelinelabodot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8aubm9gnse7jrera22t1hnbrbt/dakidugozivalosotozan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/139264141a423aec899fc19dafd68067/sejelewesipenananebetos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1enl3j5ss20ujeabdp4t61r3au/jigelalamevewivuverom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wmehoa.org/clients/d/df/dff1b85474dadb967ea0c40f6d5e37f8/File/sozeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://almar-bus.pl/userfiles/file/rikanuvef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7tqfovgq6fihnaadlbgb4fp62i/87948610443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlmberatung.ch/userfiles/files/67572074924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10d58d49029b0d20206dd8badb11ad25/ziwola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fedico.ca/upload/editor/file/9929730542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608570b2ada5c---92712700116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toonesk.com/upload/xugepubupage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chono.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/xogoson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+many+calories+in+a+glass+of+white+zinfandel+winePDF 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_off0000eea9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEA9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106BB 17764 bytes
SHA-256: 42e1d9d36fbe02643e4b6525c481b3c813f5ef79a2009d6e8e4c45aa5bf237ee
font_02_sfnt_off000134e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134E9 11172 bytes
SHA-256: e19b044af0590ba41f2475e2f2baef40f5503629b6b47c7fa97684fa9aad7f68