Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8cee8f411887e989…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.6 KB Created: 2021-07-16 16:33:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 8601756c1fda86269d63fb71e97427a7 SHA-1: f665c5c84336812362cc7c0755d82270967d2059 SHA-256: 8cee8f411887e989b9a5bf192910249de97b0a10b01cf105faced57939f2706f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites. The structure suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination and potentially leverage SEO poisoning.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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 https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ur36ncndbl7s6fjomaq93m389q/kaxazopodizo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/182248567125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-5/file/94724751943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50d196183c07334692517d5a64d761ba/78273718187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a75140b51b0---24389800205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasvaripalmuzeum.hu/upload/file/33687363219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6eijs32asvuq84f539evtt6aru/85780482996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stilistspb.online/public/files/uploads/files/42505407417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basaritarim.net/admin/editor_resim/file/boranagujoramovet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ca015a476d---zunisoregokuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84bcbabc89173eba5bd4e7467fd058f7/94350622960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocincorporated.com/domain.com/images/dynamic_pages/file/maketogoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eugensa.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/bigolefadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa9c3a44715---bodekunix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klefmarken.se/upload/file/27034418666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68d3ee0c2cd98a264d64c09b0634fbe7/lirigeselavudesitejex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/24801854241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fonixkoncert.hu/upload/file/ferifujutifulomeraperob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c90f834694b---99629674489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oletrans.sk/editor_uploads/files/muxubibukuginotajub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iht41jt5hbfpj673i8pamgom22/junewejusulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/410dd98021cdff583905207b1ae9dbe6/fikepoxogan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poldercuptrofee.nl/site/admin/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/bileluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphysiology.ru/upload/tovirutovuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfb1d8ea58c11edbc432abfa89b9a36d/86042724066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=the+fury+2014PDF 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_off00011807.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11807 10068 bytes
SHA-256: 626fd9426ea0be0f0fa5e757d7a8f9fbadbdcc816b1bd57590f20a7d107ecbec
font_01_sfnt_off00012eb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EB3 17904 bytes
SHA-256: 8cedf9561b0f7102128dcf87f893ed6b2cccac49751399d528ccb7537cf34a5d
font_02_sfnt_off00015d23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15D23 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1