Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8cf89160f79ed7c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

129.0 KB Created: 2021-07-25 03:03:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: bef4fe1ecb86d10db1b5bc1ef78dca70 SHA-1: ed7dfe2e08098d1f0c2ba6987489152fd9f62709 SHA-256: 8cf89160f79ed7c8bf0d6f5137fad207487ac50cd58127d45abb3896fb8a034a
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, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3u2pmrov34ns5ouor34kqa964q/lilir.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8db2e5a393---zuwaxelulaluxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160820a18d87ea---tubanozewixafefotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/48675937194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fertilizergranulatorprice.com/d/files/37615545707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a62f419f7d8---gajalepitokezusoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26b6eafa982f9e9480f4012b533fb184/norirasojuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0e90a6214e---60637304488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peterdegendt.be/file/wemirune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/91650880283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/pubajejojufujupadixufur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab4b7894ba---80972124082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://placc.info/up_image/92102894718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6d1ca41357ac1632a2f853360035ffe/43166271546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeremypourstarlight.com/clients/5/53/539822683240d2210db56c0084569a8b/File/gekaxutulog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f96d72c7f---22258268597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/sazure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://randoquad72.fr/userfiles/file/kivexefefudun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/289e562ba13ebe883782172741fce717/sikurodudopowaxujonoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/zifevelujisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7380115393---74494484068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jotekonybakterium.hu/userfiles/files/lanuzoribawube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://navigator-nsk.ru/userfiles/file/61772705039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=novena+de+aguinaldos+d%C3%ADa+23PDF 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_off00019455.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19455 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 3ed70ebf05434ba396748bbbf7ac2e5732f2ebb6c2449528c42d0e2e5f6dfb24
font_01_sfnt_off0001acea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1ACEA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001c4fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C4FC 18680 bytes
SHA-256: 5ad319683a8c839ee1560c70f95a63917ed27f34c0702e18b6b5883ed587de33