Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ccd4073140a3774…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-07-29 18:25:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: db9e848efc421cea41eb9e56c662e1ce SHA-1: a262358f2add3b03177e8b30bb136774baff498b SHA-256: 8ccd4073140a37749e2fa58d378fb0941ced3543d9772c609746c6298c530b0d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links indicates a likely attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f230e152137---84641420801.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2ab72b5a4b---dizitofifeluresavawuwifoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carlojans.com/cms/file/bopuzikebizelemamugod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rideabikenews.com/user_img/files/wivadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c48be68f63005134bd135bfd716ea30/29607938114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphanaturehk.com/userfiles/file/xiloxevarosuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52e21e9264da7c08952098542f3cba97/40383024945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hccc252.ca/clients/e/e4/e484b38507f190a955b66748903449e1/File/65391809795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a05a64710ae---13611539986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/69090489428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puzynowska-kancelaria.com/userfiles/file/16404950494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trhs1966.com/clients/b/bb/bbabdd843433c1cf4d3e80624837507c/File/lanodavelowex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d9ac4e7b078799c68f9249081d401b2/34428852944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/muserenikalajabikopup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cba9c55f6bc---51953745460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speaklifeiamgreatness.com/files/files/lebugixevipasuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tc3hjvds6vpbs7b7j99nsk6ck8/jenitafug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olgapolyakova.com/files/files/dujenakoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b079c394696---40781600217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f891590c24---fobovelaminaporesagen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4834b19076298daf0afda14b811670d/lapuroki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe023d373f7---nopagosaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondatayho.vn/images/ckeditor/files/sakorutofojipagigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=can+you+sign+into+venmo+through+facebookPDF 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_off0000ec42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC42 11280 bytes
SHA-256: 7ebd14e953be86cfa365859c38be045174be92142022a43131acace6fea4402e
font_01_sfnt_off000106ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ec0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EC0 17568 bytes
SHA-256: 8bc8b3af3e9826bdd23149fa0778eaf84d332e867e23dbc7c4b617646737261d