Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8df52a7710406be7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.1 KB Created: 2021-06-29 19:51:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a64906d39f3fbc3b27cb1d8dcc116646 SHA-1: 0576b426e6aacbf71783de46454e76fc2cc42a0e SHA-256: 8df52a7710406be7c5dd0d8491e3ca8a80d591451d11a46569348120a77864cb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised websites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall detection profile strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090820cad020---33958901918.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcc69fe305e---fafarutipevubofenijat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j6hl8g6j9t30tb1digp50j8tn7/dufunanabizimotakukonix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalaserasia.com/upload///13596521129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a937a0602920170a1eb27c50538c7a06/56371267855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohappy.org/userData/board/file/saguzazadasavabajubij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b97a772e66700ef3e21af1585f5eb0ce/17116434482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jk7823sljq42b1tmrrtkjna9qi/puvaveravajubinaruzanilob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfus.net/virgsurv/userfiles/file/19826608762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3b3196b19c9fd4f7d3890d379954dfb/kegitexaxelukeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fbc064b47d7b2f33c4cddb95f4b8e35/xobutepevojewebibufugipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endemic-capital.ru/uploads/files/78356419586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lee-trading.tw/archive/upload/files/23403536042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/unqp8vfh88mtveh4ej7cep1rh4/kofofenudazutomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/26191400372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i1s1gqkmsv7qo4dlcr68s1pglp/xusag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7kauq5bfeaeunhevdb9ufvagvi/12106376929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oio.cn/uploadfiles/files/8130619957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/wuriwixanorav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3f86f05a4e---welasazimokusemuroniwiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinzimoniofiumicino.eu/userfiles/files/71976571130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609542866d803---26118624719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b47c23bebe0f04f7b4d3e28547c4b3bb/gufidukabuvef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d03ee8a5dda56671beccc315ee09fce1/11754430844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89672484bc2d197683793afb2f494cdc/semefoxaromot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=space+quiz+questions+and+answers+pdfPDF 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_off0001073b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1073B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011f52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F52 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 6a8ffe94be4bbdd8eea9aa4f2f5eadf226ac38731bfb862f4b2b316b1529c4b8
font_02_sfnt_off00013905.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13905 16952 bytes
SHA-256: abf7d4726a01dc26e4c62814e1058729f194263de8e119ea552590ff0237edbd