Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8cecd83caa66f9d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.8 KB Created: 2021-07-01 20:43:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 68e06cc0298360ad6b21ff9d5834794c SHA-1: c8211edfccbd109e7b0c4f1f1d898585276d44d5 SHA-256: 8cecd83caa66f9d4e62b33985bde9852ee0b4ae1c1f130c54c77c5a5a5e534b2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised websites, suggesting it's part of a link farm used to distribute malware or conduct phishing. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports this, pointing to the exploitation of content management system uploads for hosting malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15c967b0c012cbb2ae49605f92c32b7e/96299524008.pdf
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24e2efcbd202f0a9c007b2df654929fd/57956653411.pdf
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c76894ce3d---72847349557.pdf
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea20b0c49e368c99b48a8434e675e1f5/78862010783.pdf
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/58810926816.pdf
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a64131504fb---10365578383.pdf
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c5ddf00d5---xiduz.pdf
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9bfe3a6de3---31347194780.pdf
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/wapepatituvomogolufe.pdf
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c593dcb988a6c5593cea9fcd312a4d41/pozanaruxulakalebosanen.pdf
    • http://atomleasing.ru/media/File/nabowaruru.pdf
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09n557kalvp3sclktkgd7ct8op/vezavodidefejezologidar.pdf
    • http://phukhoabacninh.com/images/files/xowamodogidi.pdf
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d5f11428be9f3301b49d90f08e9625e/45947215186.pdf
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072adac38705---31174552507.pdf
    • http://burgas-remonti.com/userfiles/file/bekubopegazefosizizi.pdf
    • http://mevlanaasm.com/resimler/files/21415664090.pdf
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7acea05f2dcb0015d84af5599de84025/63432439969.pdf
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80523c7b36414e21a6d94dc4f47c4f5c/roxiponu.pdf
    • http://longearedhounds.com/clients/65743/File/fetipiviz.pdf
    • https://www.hemoroidklinigi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2cbeb7751---60733836022.pdf
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202105010759324832.pdf
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4dd7bc8cb3---sufibi.pdf
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/komowalabekuzuloxedid.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=tinkle+book+stories+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011119.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11119 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012930.bin
4b57d515af002b0af7d95359e379bc42b8814a609cf70f8880d96c1c45e1b68a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12930 10524 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014102.bin
0f41f709bf61a14a17e4bf95d7c507ce7baaee24bf353b7cd7286c70ae9fd9a0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14102 17380 bytes