Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8dffda67dbb9a29e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 08:00:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c8a385b8e4a3198c7b3c392a6c8ec09f SHA-1: ea7f21b0d82638746c4291e223c503b1181fa052 SHA-256: 8dffda67dbb9a29e8009d204f65a381a3a21cb2d3348f095d03aaf8d33ac5321
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its specific content, but the overall structure and URL distribution strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 http://theclubburger.com/uploads/files/wafowaniwojumanenafiviri.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4e1854d86---bewuxevofedupowade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camel-republic.com/media/userfiles/files/96712903990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adfm2p4v2uoivcvn4sv510rs90/ledenuzawedipiwiguziwego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-vostok.ru/userfiles/file/lokulizitirezuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084836d2aa9d---51798172253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/91080823613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanmusicfestival.com/userfiles/file/22618834396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tochalco.com/uploads/files/75237947331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a524523fedcac25be18ef699d553ef0b/33701077592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7698c8a4bbb92339864dc0635dae1bc4/tefupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f7ef6bc8d---59285159521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdfsztal.com//uploadfile/files/mulofipanoket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e0e9d10d95---91103427749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c15d8222566---61110514287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4f314e1bc8---nimasew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auto826.com/uploads/files/99123728603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seerupit.dk/assens/file/bokagebipofidizorawunapux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsterparkett.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p04kaspp56ok97qslos83gefhp/78456029349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humble-brag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/or5g6gtbsi141mm41vrhdto5hh/ravilafibonumadijawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimtuong.vn/isc/public/files/fckupload/file/tizij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612780a80f0e9---7924596921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cooper1972.com/clients/b/b4/b451ebb09e7e0345645526f893d9a49e/File/66017658346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5fc2bc0f32---damorivujagofutujapulive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25cabf28dea411d8c5b9376d9ad7a6aa/51342389247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=the+definition+of+arithmetic+sequencePDF 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_off0000c17f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC17F 10904 bytes
SHA-256: f707b477d327cbf508502623533d5467783f121f9c64eccf505ed59d3d78b43a
font_01_sfnt_off0000da5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA5D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f26f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF26F 16764 bytes
SHA-256: c7103ed30118e0e02df36b0f427c609493cf842493f235d6b7c7cab02c64c697