Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e7f41d0023fcc5c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 08:32:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: e3d373f012375a812dae374156c6eac7 SHA-1: 5f1aec875bb66d9c0d9d6b92a28c54b51fbdd497 SHA-256: 8e7f41d0023fcc5ce71933eac082c68db8da1d021bb2dc7887e6cedbda995a44
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or manipulate search engine results. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or content distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3cf585e56---zutufewejox.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee97be86178---37966132781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kisito.com/userfiles/file/75376915537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rtqm1fsro5ntnlgfrpakmifnc0/mozatikiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0c1c233565d82f25a05374b9cb35cc5/23881608916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holycrossyouthministryasp.org/clients/f/fa/fa15eac34f6f8ef5a8ada011ffef1578/File/13592642148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file///2021062511460076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aygroupmuh.com/image/files/sokopazajujowopedopamerad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hobbes-group.com/upload/files/menedonugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmxn.com/userfiles/file/20210531194417_mfsyjn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afe12f943c7---84685317530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmf8.ir/data/file/gepir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e8b4e855128daee77ad928c14084fbf/98841001065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcserviszlin.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nimegegakelizisut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d2ehbmcq741ko1hkmr8qgjhc6/27831212475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bevelec.com/bevelec/dossierMois/file/wixafuvanevopagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dogandemir.av.tr/paketler/ckfinder/dosyalar/files/14175309277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f95507ba13---65041712890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mtcrk7sfjq97p4lur51lqo86n2/15678434988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photo-preiss.com/upload_files/files/xubabakolovezapile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thaibamboorestaurant.ca/phpsites/bard_ford/uploads/file/92446352142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlspandoek.nl/userfiles/file/71394582114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/250e72b015716e7efcf0f540b3f20c62/17671697741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc7699be757a9d4212db70069842e83d/45489352022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=atomic+absorption+spectroscopy+pdf+nptelPDF 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_off0000d74a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD74A 18540 bytes
SHA-256: 4cb97137b41636d6fbdd166248ef000dae20e9cb0001d212f1163f98bfc3df85
font_01_sfnt_off00010808.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10808 11016 bytes
SHA-256: 367b9f8d46d1efa0c814fd44e06bf6ad17d8d6dac17f574cbffb0860cfd6d6cc
font_02_sfnt_off00012176.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12176 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1