Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ce492b993bc1ebc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.3 KB Created: 2021-06-22 12:45:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c77af1c790435fca6b48aa63ab4acce8 SHA-1: fba1e05716ce126b387b43f33afba3dbff08e366 SHA-256: 8ce492b993bc1ebc1044e657713f29f1022697b5ab0501e903e55c9cf48dc426
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to trick users into downloading further malware or providing sensitive information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=english+plus+1+year+5+workbook+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2cdbce48976e81d51de908ad87bd9e3/digakowanikokegupoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h28hknhfip05tpbmo9bdk066e2/fikafaxatatekam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2gu5geoao96oic96orbp2pq9f3/94625233696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e3a7de4a40---61821177231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceraunavoltapizzeria.it/userfiles/files/25450070494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a77cbc53657---43071306787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609282d42e43e---60614246219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3ef4897764---finejepalepuvulizutob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meta-min.com/files/68174453406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3583fb11a254a44133a311315debb71f/vimiluninopeletuwajovipur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiadomainstore.com/userfiles/file/22123318813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7029734182---gopovonuzazizuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e3356e9bef---bokolalafaboso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b59e49dfd2---73667268521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antansconstructions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zululag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lederstuehle-shop.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sarimufuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609040a265eaf---46580587248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00014572.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14572 5612 bytes
SHA-256: f557efbb83d133fda8d566511b51a4aaefea34bcabdc60320728f557c3f8f555
font_01_sfnt_off000158a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x158A7 11764 bytes
SHA-256: 444426bda400403e294a540ed157bf7ad12f70c15b851592972dbec29c394c28