Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d5a38b8d170a3b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 20:41:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: f0c8296d900cff35cf27ea775c73586b SHA-1: 59bfd2d04bad95807ac4a5bbcb3eb09cc36347af SHA-256: 8d5a38b8d170a3b8dcf999a70246b23fc3518892f5201f44285508dc4e56ae4e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malware delivery mechanisms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093dd566a065---ziralukepi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/023d5ffc1f47ee0a29be445943dc9767/ledidefapakizavon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6b81cec4fe---jixir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac859b4bd35---62567236078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teenaramainc.org/clients/875997/File/pawazanage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfa87ce7b88---xewuborurerabifexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1g70co278b6kmdo4v424qf5dk2/66399589671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lq025dg0bkqo6e8btf92c4d8c1/96552352596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50f900d0906afb6866de7c29a51e3867/67094212761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/pejuvateretowuriwaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41ebba12bd35db8bf8e530f86d041a0e/41501786985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607627ed35d0f---13901452421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aurora-c.jp/files/files/jedix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n15q1k23juafcjugr1kltd9btl/wusiruwokegekit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s21nh95q5jqgmhdrul8paqofoe/6216659763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsp-oblspl.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vixiduxemamolipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bbf3f02fe4---bugamureduwakinatogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2d52992194---35170573824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac52edd53de---39841629832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.pl/upload/kiradane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamtimeshare.com/userfiles/file/45851025654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b6f860a701---29883253417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/31712263954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena.de/eros/userfiles/file/50291084544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc5e4c74b9c---rejomexepupezaxuwalijuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=synonyms+of+smartPDF 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_off0000fc07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC07 10296 bytes
SHA-256: 8dd46b17589ceef67cd17e6dcb08bff1838d38d7f4979aa7a302b047c3aa2f1e
font_01_sfnt_off0001133a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1133A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B4C 17788 bytes
SHA-256: 6b855b5dd3ef5c342a1e03d3560062b5a24099904e37d12ead6d17f215c1ce07