Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8cdaf294a125cc6b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-08-29 03:01:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 3c1db9f2468973abaa4038bc3e8ea60e SHA-1: 411c77b5b9c7c3c56c5d97a8c07e46f5ae49369e SHA-256: 8cdaf294a125cc6b67759af2e8bf132fa2302cfcb6bc10d2f57aafbcef9b24c9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to host malicious files. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to trick users into downloading malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://talleresjpg.es/img/file/34329570455.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fecoil.com/userfiles/file/97129762915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b59c6ea9f9a---6230012485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607226c27202f---37628068035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074ac70cacd4---9137305344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa17b9b1d10---57488953878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bcb8e82c8b---36044395942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremyco.com/app/webroot/docs/file/wosanif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sendedianqi.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-12/20210812135033689253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18vapni736fro194mhuoe84r5f/putogazoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1c0507f4f3---jamegajogunadam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://briarcliff68.com/clients/71184/File/47815657243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waetsukai.jp/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83777947494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/063c414f8160c38148341ba92c5668d5/98629842124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qian-ho.com/upfiles/editor/files/taresif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tycoonmedical.com/userfiles/file/gufebikezeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://responsible-tourism-alliance.com/content_file/files/vilawoxidedixakapakeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntep2008.com/UserFiles/File/pinumofog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloit1962.com/clients/8/83/8368a4f838dea3176655029ae9e337da/File/fotovewutegitogipusamoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhdrum.com/User_File/UpFile/file/20210709112443_a2lqdXRvc3U=.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://openendrep.com/userfiles/files/63618316461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rakkhunnursinghome.com/user_img/files/mufelevutuvasaroduvufilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wagaskar.com/media/xefizumotobobajidagizam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timnhanhonline.vn/upload/files/80231734278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a165d204c93e18b78df2d82934eae4cf/mijudiliridegikewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-23/20210723135618198808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=word+problem+on+proportions+problem+type+1PDF 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_off0000cc50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC50 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e462.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE462 18356 bytes
SHA-256: 070a3ee9ab1b3a086e07c40e7a63770b466e3afeb5d187084a0a43562bb62ec9
font_02_sfnt_off000114bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114BB 10688 bytes
SHA-256: a4901a2ff0b50e20e8606fa7046352c5f554e29692d4f8e64bbaab6610f13b62