Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8cc72e1caf70cc23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-08-15 13:42:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 28092d1594697406fc12eaefe7f9242e SHA-1: 0d3e49642b37d8bdebba4b9dd80db97925579b90 SHA-256: 8cc72e1caf70cc23eeb19e2e90ebf6791625529184fea8cba710bd5178246041
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress installations and disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings clearly indicate the file's purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q6bnirjbh67c2r3ja7ccu9n6a4/29562398313.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://liniagdanskzydowo.pl/files/60337753938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1d24edeac1---dozupovaxirigexine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariautonoleggiomarsala.it/userfiles/files/jokivawevasawipesed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///46235093363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artdealer.vn/upload/fckimagesfile/a73b4dafe0cd5f91fb908d1bde900c31.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wchs67.com/clients/f/fd/fd50fd9748f3592dabdfdad26f378f15/File/simibuzetiwuzenakafuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comp-art.ru/userfiles/file/pasadavababofemesuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ac11cb269d---64068358799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/307igen3c7qiv3kv5c6qhbal1b/45830264421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813bb6c4f75---kawalekugijetapelexex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608816fd99cf0---12868658483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rc-mst.com/mst/_upload/files/12564881974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cddfct.com/up_files/file/76708692080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanglassgroup.cn/userfiles/file/97611265118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscow-vernisage.com/files/files/gameromerujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrarontani.it/userfiles/files/xapuduzovasazuzuwuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec606bcf207c6ae24d099d38fbb1cad6/bamomiguzabemediv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/36270756064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--49s538bo8ux8c.net/userfiles/file/88445964613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a38d5ecf320---78103270030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backkwang.com/userData/board/file/xubowifuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc3cecadd58---jovoselimesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=%C3%A9valuation+les+polygones+cm2PDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d0d8eac8538b0b2f4deeb95ec1ee1b1/36196075406.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_off0000e480.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE480 11016 bytes
SHA-256: 5e148c2931c128ad17fb1c10312980cd9add52b2f048930f3ff48584e840fd12
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE38 18636 bytes
SHA-256: 4f3cd2293ac86758e42e3c6606ab3ba5a9a98e3445b65582ec504d551c616fe3
font_02_sfnt_off00012c4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C4F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1