Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8deec8fe0115ed7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.1 KB Created: 2021-06-28 00:05:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a8849db5372c59d4fb1ef3ed4157a4d7 SHA-1: 3b422ed67ee20a9a0fbdd8678587abe394198765 SHA-256: 8deec8fe0115ed7d2448440506b2cb40133f3ff3e213c9ade8a3c2e7790a7704
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO poisoning to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://wib24-admin.de/uploads/file/kitun.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160956e9cd63c3---satemawezasozojatofum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/pikalemuvaserezamajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kath-kiga-bw.de/bilder/berichte/file/33629985193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytalk7.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/3338474129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097f32047bbe---wiguzixos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080de63b0ecb---22684151570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c62fc5a62---mikuxatagigogowapunibes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bearings-home.com/userfiles/file/fegutupexabog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc9f592965---69741956183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c148cc906ea---65987647568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://t-p-fortune.com/userfiles/file/burigazumajezokisur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamesirvinewedding.com/clients/f/f9/f947a18657f5d77a8fcd192ffd4ccf25/File/41684170053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fs13tbd3l2d5udp9gfp98n6043/karome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e4cd72fa4---59551604021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f3a708955---94065061773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferado.vn/userfiles/file/petenefoxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd6bd4617a042023685016770e59856a/68852405350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s73h1mcmf4ea8u11psps1afq74/vexirizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/59054583943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antonio-pelella.eu/userfiles/files/3189367123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6a46e7b90f26069a7b4cc1ac0e7f096/jagidomuxixigopikaxad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daoltrading.com/userData/board/file/wajosimujisigilebov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oio.cn/uploadfiles/files/fezininawepazogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0cc17f436ec0b5c4050f5a96a61deba/43023732683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=pack+a+punch+on+voyage+of+despairPDF 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_off00014f00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F00 11128 bytes
SHA-256: 792474bd1c407c75952e34a58ab6a48cac07d113e32fbc39c25fc5c4478c8847
font_01_sfnt_off000168cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x168CC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000180de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x180DE 17760 bytes
SHA-256: 8ca7c3ad6f97cf330f0f31525c6b858907cff7ac8030c0f49bc379cdb48f6f7f