Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8da79f399e81cd50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-07-08 02:35:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: d9c18f47e4291468e32350d116b3aa6c SHA-1: d0a3b818bd4e9e7fb3ddf99719b1c3b4e765b968 SHA-256: 8da79f399e81cd50a0ba81b1a85974be17425eb9fc6be9ebfd1570e5e34f8d95
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of multiple PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics indicate the primary function is to redirect users to external, potentially malicious, URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/649709e40cd5cba572b25556cfcc9ee4/xefojidodowasukipasoziz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://solamsys.com/userData/board/file/40510106141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df7e3617e70---34946209878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chaplains-camps.org/upload_picture/file/zebutuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hekn3hfcpqf4ka9vl3cm7f8pde/42120840936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df7a2cc7fa6---77059052177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf67880a6e3---mijimaxisetesopeniwatumel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-barrierfree.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210708_7DBA96E1941ACFB4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://havadisname.com/upload/ckfinder/files/22831620600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h476a0gergve9s61fisurvhu40/92278366473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsfeed.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/nununa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://briarcliff70.com/clients/874901/File/magoniweravegixixez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jancsoalapitvany.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76501957615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a3e39ca4bcbb0692e4f50864db12ec5/57476938439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bocghedanang.com/media/ftp/file/gurivogoderafugonobib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ypperfect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/biwugekitaluvoxosabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getadoc.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fimomabowiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/76853520560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/69050731878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d0f38e2b67e92578bf350d559dd7767/foleguwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rh0tqfhv9grqj826fnn15sflv6/daneferepawukobimukemog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607998968d80a---zevexuwasixukumonepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160910f2a1ad7a---wadabokol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/wedazikaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleiuri.ro/userfiles/file/17776200881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=tokyo+ghoul+animes+onlinePDF link annotation
    • https://lapdonline.org/file/rotuwu.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_off0000ee32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE32 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010649.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10649 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 568a342fc8f28be79f47a088b87da264ab02d62dfe6eafb0bedfd3758daa8ee0
font_02_sfnt_off00011e6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E6B 17324 bytes
SHA-256: e7f15d556515356d89351da6cf9867121a1858ea1a1757da5a1bb1d9714ad15f