Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e8c522984a3976b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-07-06 20:46:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 382764b293328c460eac1b360f331c8a SHA-1: f6dfeea77ee0a1326e1a6edaf9ca92cd56b3b52f SHA-256: 8e8c522984a3976b8cfc985a7c0f5d70c54c53a353ad2e111197e351c165f3e7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, with one specific URL being a PDF hosted on a compromised WordPress upload directory. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous links suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content, likely for further exploitation or phishing. The use of a compromised CMS upload link farm is a common tactic for distributing malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078bfdbaf0cd---lusijodibaxitidunisi.pdf
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/223848b268e035e7a366c32bd8401a51/zexoga.pdf
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d4dcb1cbdd9933b3013c07766006f24/fodevulatudigereb.pdf
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160753bc767356---xepilikowixajadapim.pdf
    • https://digireg.dk/upload/nedit.pdf
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c33d77fd7907412216979965490c5b8/50660098879.pdf
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f54081a866d82a87e3e8dab4fe9a278/borumajatibekelopemevizis.pdf
    • https://pioneerlift.com/upfiles/editor/files/18384636295.pdf
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/wijulujozaziligipepoko.pdf
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b364176f8be---32996486497.pdf
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec1bb2e18601332968cba760d02b68a9/79255490507.pdf
    • http://stalmont.eu/userfiles/file/fipojitupivakafamajivije.pdf
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093489f25685---dutoluwadanelanubosedoxuj.pdf
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/mekiralulexolo.pdf
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d223e7d2d5f34cb1e57b88c9cb51e87/21851313867.pdf
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bhotrhikc4au1e1i8lahljt28u/gixufupuzulufikusanajon.pdf
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-19/20210519232533196808.pdf
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cf43a83efb4899aa044871e1dc11708/kusanotawivalifoluso.pdf
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/io7i96l58lav27niojv6p4rulu/97446017644.pdf
    • https://imagebeaute.fr/userfiles/file/42538601877.pdf
    • https://eagle-aviation.com/userfiles/files/pepab.pdf
    • https://easybuildapp.com/files/uploaded/files/31548397270.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=infp+personality+memes
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c199.bin
1aae313da650250533a03a147851abed159085380004eec40fe9cd4e41766848
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC199 10584 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9c6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9C6 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1d8.bin
f280014a5cb4d387736fba2b687ea5e3d3abd460121300bef8e0ec345efc59f9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1D8 15684 bytes