Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d7a3ca4b4f4ad53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-08-11 17:45:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: eed2df8c433eb5ddac30ba4e9c1ebaf3 SHA-1: f939c69dc63fb1d663cf484d113b2d14c35b93d6 SHA-256: 8d7a3ca4b4f4ad53d11b9479cfcc503a39c8a1c24cfa09d5c7b56a7f543c63c0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting a tactic to host malicious files or redirect users to phishing sites. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and a link farm pattern indicates an effort to distribute malicious content or phish credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f3eae7a6d---tujufixox.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815f1fe4886---70207016799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae72ee457a5---82185271573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a1fc34642ac1bf6e4ad85f768909d59/99963933666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharma-tools.eu/galeria/file/53678940734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8b5860cfa5---27004180246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16ed1738f4525a71aed31bb73d82d2eb/dawifamefepujej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawngo.net/fckfiles/61060892300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00616d9efa5c9a2975e7a9885dc80eeb/lanedemafadozamegaretobij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105b748a3e81---78951628411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphysiology.ru/upload/derajusikekudorunagevun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ac2e6bcb7---zubagakadetutojowowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160852a7a1555c---52109046433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcwma.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/diwuvopikorap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://franchiseharbor.com/files/files/pomebelixivujetivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prochem.vn/images/uploads/files/nogewijuxijifubapekakewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiovalentini.eu/userfiles/files/texujasegekotaxogivepew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaonhaphatphap.com/images/uploads/files/20074049289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/22361912890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d393881f4e---12460617621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d05heh776lfmfdin7jititblp4/8644009572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11c842588fc91ce9256ab1cbdb559d54/25077515891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandhotelbulgaria.com/userfiles/file/korojux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crackershrimp.com/file_media/file_image/file/negesemuremuruzuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=que+significa+el+inicio+nudo+y+desenlacePDF 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_off0000ee6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE6B 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 02926f27f33066f82cf7f83c33dcff8d6e8dc051d306909dcf74246262c01a1a
font_01_sfnt_off0001071d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1071D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F2F 17872 bytes
SHA-256: 1d3b422fa3581e29c365188033f3f3bbb378192e42617c9d04a93c7f01d7dbcd