Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e47724fe80b6964…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-06-25 13:29:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 5042013fdd28a41d35486f4c9f821d0d SHA-1: 0de098c046674a89f6fc310fd20f87c5c4a48856 SHA-256: 8e47724fe80b6964292ae4a480e91c5274be786c7722ee98cefc8a9a1a60cd86
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains. The embedded URLs and link farm structure suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://crystalsteakandstogie.com/clients/1/1d/1dbb6d5698303b6304ae84622e226a19/File/sawos.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/438d41536bc734617b5826d1b73e04ff/50172832928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/po40nqs1em75mjv9otvcmlign0/sekejoketudezorisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc7f8a1aa93---dovulevowujiluvazanuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/54695389740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmsschoolkg.org/userfiles/file/korovikowiteje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098e71ac00d2---zividovemekuxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/286329ff79ce9439c0fa66739fb5d5e8/lowasipowidukajikageliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c3085c411efccbdb29f45322cb2a9c3/sojabuwojali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/ziniziguruvelisoxiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartgallery.com/clientMedia/file/55654564611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609232d46c2a7---86228824163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c57b99c8c3fa47dd3e65db799e4f31d/64764107099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://everest-c.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luvipowigeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3de3c5d08da1ef16ab69142d882d108e/37041051322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cursosgratuitosonline.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8rp8dq75r3rfu4plq2b8hb0lhj/xonenum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5af452b81---bajabajukumujunif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35efaf4de8685c777201354476c72285/wagoxiluxilolokoweketobaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=cost+to+build+a+container+shipPDF 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_off0000fa43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA43 17144 bytes
SHA-256: cb904e3e850dbd0e0e68f2f0ac2287269e3e5572ad435bcdeb40c69c5c2eb25a
font_01_sfnt_off000126b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126B5 10884 bytes
SHA-256: c927f91ba20c99535c85260facdd1598fe69376ec9d8c2a79d38c312012302ba
font_02_sfnt_off00013f94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F94 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1