Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8de7931c66f3ba63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 15:25:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 2dbc6214e413688a97bc2ca3b8b70fc1 SHA-1: 74c1551e5f75f884beff6c9177f48145f58cb122 SHA-256: 8de7931c66f3ba63200882466b3eed44c46272e4eb89d62307c6ab12d578e01f
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel

The PDF contains numerous links to potentially compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm used for SEO poisoning or hosting malicious content. The presence of an MFA lure suggests a credential harvesting attempt. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious classification. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristics point to a phishing or credential theft campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • MFA / one-time-code harvesting lure high SE_MFA_LURE
    Document asks for a one-time code, authenticator approval, or MFA confirmation — consistent with credential phishing kits that steal session tokens or abuse multi-factor authentication
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.truegridpaver.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a757562f422515ace8130e3b1dffce2/1213685286.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://patc.fr/imagesfile/68143582421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/wuzubozizadabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0ff0a9d326---6254830309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df5539b88d9e70cec301e4886d1718b0/zekepunutum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1crlsu1925a53tv55ou2u96s4/valube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flynewsletter.com/uploads/file/53488286799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160869f6580ab8---61390267498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///siralurisidiludota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099d8b14b435---xogagekokajazowom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aparcaderoshaddaichile.cl/uploads/images/files/37177136695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sb2j86kak90jf4h1lffdhekj00/revuvovipifegoferaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160727b1bf3f4e---tofodopumuniwegaberuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifaistos.reality.gr/~triantaf/images/file/21636131648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dfcd151bcd4---26086629762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://englandmatchshirts.com/assets/file/bozazageforat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc2451814b6---lurusawaximuzezewariza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0488cd9d2b---6755888943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9b8c75475b7f04b54feb112f388e719/duwomul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwill.as/userfiles/file/betidunegim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjbtrh.com/files/pic/file/xaxesewobojek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b08fcddf22c---porumikotorimeberewur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=cracking+the+coding+interview+download+freePDF 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_off0000e63c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE63C 21712 bytes
SHA-256: 75a75ddf395b16b0250495bd03af7d14cd2c6f5cec9651d4f59a979636da0635
font_01_sfnt_off00011cf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CF6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001350d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1350D 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 1ba1103c24b7cc43b7a905d91f3b9beaf005b436db6efe68bb35fdb602f6d69f