Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8cc4c78464f697f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-07-04 04:29:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: bc4efd002ebcd42d36bf52b0f2839d73 SHA-1: dd054aab61c61619747346a9928990531973dc16 SHA-256: 8cc4c78464f697f12f57687dea34ddd28775ef8258606ef325303ae236955380
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The PDF structure itself is also indicative of a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination of the user's click.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=why+do+you+want+to+work+here+answer+examples PDF link annotation
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0e4942f85de925db12c94c440344eea/zusafojamidimafedapuvef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087647de578b---64692273984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/dexaxosojeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotossc.pl/_files/file/jusabonafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpspcb.com/uploads/files/46753434402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halongbaycruises.org/upload/files/nojoboforezakereda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa0c1a2a006---ganokodeguwebuxepix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b05d293d0---41660393588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asthasupermarket.com/userfiles/file/vonedenole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83fdca44e903a06b600b68c0535291cb/44490524003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/lepapipaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160883378d1d23---goluremazeluxibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd4ef2c4a04---sijedafuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thaiboat.net/image/upload/File/zodupatekupawado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833e3c80a4e---3197898686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrayamed.com/userfiles/file/nubutoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://revucue.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34296204733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f276319b94---34378926955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d710dcdb94---24574802421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konyaozgunmobilya.com/userfiles/file/534808015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibshop.gr/uploads/_uploads/files/97095373824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/742f08c177b9136f8290f0e253927cf0/93611713040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3e96ba640---xudonup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d504a907668afed94531039fadacba77/junela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/foki7r98c582moo40ht6mve6ol/3458734315.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_off0000ed35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED35 17140 bytes
SHA-256: 38480eb6add84e7640d345d1faf7146fb0dec0f35a22af3540c24e2a4951ff9b
font_01_sfnt_off00011935.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11935 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001314c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1314C 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 97f60a9425450aa5e978570f2050120892c095057e72b47f35f03d23e4fe0104