Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8dd6c0e7a0b9e209…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-07-15 20:53:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 7f289982c70efdc71bcccbf5e96364a1 SHA-1: ea0b4ca1ef26f95556c6123f519789c8dd83b4b1 SHA-256: 8dd6c0e7a0b9e209ba5456b45bc348b047e8700b0767671f5ef76eea61ba9a24
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, specifically within the formcraft plugin's file upload directory. This structure is indicative of a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content, likely phishing pages or malware downloaders. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

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 https://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sql+insert+multiple+rows+in+one+query PDF link annotation
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607024a92f6ba---zokexudizuduseguguko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d4f7a6f3dd---wutonukegaxakoxavigudiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb2a218e34---fikifarutokukifena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088863196333---xamedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chieusangducphat.com/uploads/userfiles/file/93223268994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d1dee4ab9e---74814879169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yjccnc.com/upload/files/2126558575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2bab6e6170f549aafb73d222a709091/94730177092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbec00db4e---27228110722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f3f52ddafc60372375bdad08354d0ec/91531515068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1gdss85e5cd16iruc4tsopmpa/relumujajixor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geriatriccarenewjersey.com/userfiles/files/73362754792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmsorganica.com/userfiles/file/babafamabiparawaxesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160991fbd95171---lodepefalegup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigcool.net/webroot/img/files/pesunowuzojogoranenipamug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071fb93a90c3---43867463228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wojno-stal.pl/pliki/file/zofaluwajosor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccd5481259---zasudemewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2286d10159d93ccaa660e2ef4d3c60bd/18319959021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d49d10e9d4---88696692988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc1c6ed094b---59498260562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160756d80c6b97---33461128366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ee265a14aa32f6f1642fea5ee9297ea/bewezib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baikalspring.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sebafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deewanalarab.com/up_imgs/vumavudetirexapewilesilu.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_off0000eb3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB3B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010352.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10352 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 6b0df2fcffa3abc6ee38cfd126ac1bb6ff20ed11e5ad4a8efbb3277643a3d155
font_02_sfnt_off00011c22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C22 18056 bytes
SHA-256: b66d071a4ff1c192412b0bc2b3efd30de0b6dc27eedcab89e10d28ab09b3ade4