Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d7f93674551017f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 23:22:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e3023b904ad7d4647e7fd4a6e01418e3 SHA-1: 6dc6c4606c601b51cf610996f4e55fdfac31ad0d SHA-256: 8d7f93674551017fa08c22eee0cd65d7f2552f931be4b7c20567c34b86aa2c44
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, indicating an attempt to hide its true purpose, which is likely to facilitate phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=socratic+questioning+psychology+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://vitanov.rs/files/67176006523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d057222d81---rimisifet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ci5t2kbqegk4l5i58d3gti0c4e/67744919592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcccmiennam.com/media/ftp/file/89447643039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bangkoksolarpower.com/syner_upload/images/files/11435103224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abe572cbfbd---zemevodebajir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609943790f47b---bubavezojagawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5d5371e48---digef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.info/files/files/17778110349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21bocdn42s6u1evblvrok6dc76/17373877655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastendmediation.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/7322469922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c08898c62e1be4cf16e16222c978ab9/48595122881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/884fe17a029aa51dada76e028337b88f/68362653351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limblength-sldf.com/userfiles/file/wagizaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2425b67428843288a3976d1c2824415b/77076803419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7fbf3b3ed1f4bf030f89a31a90a8de4/9310864439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f7e8c6cc34---4887128792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb7105c389---rubevuzuxivusipemade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/210f97b0da0792aa9a75a996091ad138/8813592674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5ff9334d92---7489844202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.darvidproperty.com/news/file/jatuwifusotiketeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160852e0706ad8---98556366762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oqdk6vaqe47rhq3qvjh1at2o92/60239810448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f9ad41aaa2bc03d09abb0b352a58f0e/vapogunegosasidoburib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spacio.hk/attachment/file/zovilebunab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000fd08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD08 11332 bytes
SHA-256: 62947c687eec2063eda5ce4cfe63c0f7c0aa2d30cffa32d1a159e0a5d746276e
font_01_sfnt_off0001171d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1171D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012f2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F2F 17616 bytes
SHA-256: bcb9fff560fe072208c12ef4461aef45c66add91dbae25f3e7a7750651fef821