Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8eaaa8af7e07e45f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.3 KB Created: 2021-06-25 19:37:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 7c8cbcc75efffff38aa454f0f5edee3a SHA-1: dcaa9a6c3976aaedd3ee958814bbb2e52452ca59 SHA-256: 8eaaa8af7e07e45f814e8a0aef67055d061bf26b86c3f5f2a8aeda3732855440
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, which in turn host other PDF files. This suggests a link farm strategy designed to obscure the ultimate malicious destination, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9918

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://cbcom.eu/ressource/site-image/files/75427774482.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.reachcast.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca18a1106d91a4b078fc1a27e40299ec/jezila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fid-data.fr/app/webroot/uploaderfiles/92219901019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3394b11d2---62640073123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spbmworld.com/anaeter_capital/siteadmin/userfiles/files/xisepufufenilazas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.evisiontiendaonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66798463813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stjohnhomelessshelter.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0711c1eacd3ed42fea55e6af2fd37273/71272184808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toskov-yordanov.com/userfiles/file/9209286379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instant-image.net/UserFiles/Site/File/dutagumejixosefemivozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lroundup.com/clients/d/d7/d7466da0ad72d96b64793f89c518a0d9/File/50310970495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a52c918fc06---41796269802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.rs/slicice/file/sepozav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088c0fa80e30---bapugis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7949482cd49f9896240eb50a997fdbc7/4162970428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/defom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fon3vkdq0n9lpr5a727g99ntm6/gikakute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4o4s4g98a218fmlnhuo5r2aql5/sadesukoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8b9df63c4e801d204446c6872ece331/79928469303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ee4be0cefe---xaxeronijimotanisaxavupod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banktapeunadana.com/tapeunadana/bank2/admin/userfiles/file/2134885654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdbim.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/2201074616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da49l433b61kko8tan29rgvb84/ronemabodusovitenepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/105gmt46s27pg4hbol58t3mlr3/2881075224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickvideo.nl/userfiles/file/93589215623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=best+age+to+dock+a+dog%27s+tailPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001010b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1010B 10520 bytes
SHA-256: adfc2ddab336c80d54ba3f27c04c9cc364d7cd17e44733657b8e20603ef22fb1
font_01_sfnt_off00011907.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11907 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013114.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13114 2296 bytes
SHA-256: 01f027aa1a20ae5e1b2ae90f09b5c7ceaabd8a2f28ba34b996bc5c7d0072686d
font_03_sfnt_off00013b45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B45 18644 bytes
SHA-256: be142c0f066154680b571828a7b039ddd2def6c04a81e6f86c51b1f25a41bb21