Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d765608327494f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 15:52:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 7e505f405b9ed97a1cb6567c20dd1eb9 SHA-1: 6e973be794365f1aba57fac3890bfd769229d6f3 SHA-256: 8d765608327494f869bd1eba7dcd82d0a90cc04af061fca37920390228d2e9b3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious or phishing content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of numerous URLs on compromised domains indicates a phishing or redirection campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7686e33ec6---ruwokafakukobowe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://foundryindia.org/userfiles/file/85096880333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c34711a5f929044d4b9cca974b386417/lunepul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o1tq5ca6irvgu2qkci4q88ue12/40872368849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lohs69.com/clients/82366/File/fumovonoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenstatues.com/uplds/file/15891732067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalilak1.com/userfiles/file/xesav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s232m02tntksptfhqqkjr9n36k/jafix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuhomania.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58213932286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bca71509f4d20a540850633ad3ad41ff/ditetajezamemedemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://famecosmica.it/file/79695008258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/56317613942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theprofitnesstrainers.com/userfiles/file/xoregekikekavusevide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/luliseli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellarvvv.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98163931749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pratikchoudhury.com/fckimages/file/35820178928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhadatonline24h.com/Images_upload/files/midaforewafadixowozos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalaviationmuseum.com/userfiles/files/71391846721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aabb8a1d78---81717857188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/muvasosujepapetawamezurel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e170dd1fe1da60cc52419ac23ab451f2/darolimojasozowedizuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yokohama-model.com/userfiles/files/zunigazepizogugokofuwapel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morecoredesign.com/images/imageUps/files/joxatesepositu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frankifoto.com/uploads/pages/files/panoziwusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/22943238470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=relevance+of+history+pdfPDF 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_off0000ddcb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDCB 16184 bytes
SHA-256: 25d1c09bcfaed17a62bc2ac9c921fb409f1bd1d560ccef487f8a616f303d6329
font_01_sfnt_off0001078d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1078D 10940 bytes
SHA-256: cf977190e11ca6aa538e4ebba138b0a12f906e33d7298508b4d550e1e7b1fcab
font_02_sfnt_off000120e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1