Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8cd2df6444ffc054…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.3 KB Created: 2021-07-04 07:45:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 5e5fb9928e5d89b1e7373cd653dbce46 SHA-1: 14d7cae3e176a74b601e2187b948b1354a05cc29 SHA-256: 8cd2df6444ffc0544995bd4f471754eb180cf9dcbb21b5c0c5fa888768708fb9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDFs. This structure suggests a link farm designed to distribute malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9918

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eddfbdd573---54102675238.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d48bf1806---wifoxadifuloso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eee1e0c668---karodisol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dou45f4smhvi0bvb1rieh2hrf9/laxizefemigulirepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2acontractor.it/images/file/dizojokiginuxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://educationexplosion.com/clients/a/aa/aae59ec6301d25964842a0067e0ae100/File/91890708049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toddfamilyreunion.com/clients/4/48/482e924d5a052aa4a0c13eb8a30e0bc8/File/5003005945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shreyaghoshal.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/44353438054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/71232686724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extracam.es/app/webroot/arxius/file/xafulog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wecans.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/57967904590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607415f6cafde---67276083309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd1c631616d0107bdb48c7ea76d046cf/35893753589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nasikampung.info/contents//files/53020703045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcr4ct00focjla6kad5enm1ak5/14587238673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandzak.best/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b5a37ae53f30738497398c64f3c913a/84393033237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5bb4d4aa62672be702a81209feaf6e7/suxuzobatojutiruta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609644f8a5eb9---wugaxivurunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cee9ef2eb80---27591657640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electrabicycles.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16236011843964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dd3aa5d1aed989b12927e1c1cb56fc3/10640771029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4311e72e35---vikewatedaloduvujag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biovuspharma.net/userfiles/files/laxijam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1de6e10361aa1a3ea3ddc257a22deab0/70493308131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=student+report+cover+pagePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f7c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7C8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010fda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FDA 16992 bytes
SHA-256: 222285093be35ec9d704d9d36937926919acb43b1757bad465f684134865e9c6
font_02_sfnt_off00013c1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C1A 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 255b2ec5b9eca5b92d7a12029acf5302fef7aba9ba456bee8e9ff3e83102bf4f
font_03_sfnt_off0001545e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1545E 16144 bytes
SHA-256: fcca37035df06e555c2991ff65faa0e8497ca6423bee408ebc46b3aef925b516