Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ec31f6288770a0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.5 KB Created: 2021-07-28 07:19:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: ef9b7d7c361b78b1cc7e7027fdad6ffb SHA-1: c1b618ea79efde63ef06124293a8d742553bc6da SHA-256: 8ec31f6288770a0f1bdeacb04072d8abcd9bef0d5b0e20572aa09e68877d7ae4
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, likely intended to trick users into downloading a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway security. The presence of multiple unknown URLs hosted on potentially compromised sites reinforces the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160915b706b49a---1484906909.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0b45e0466e---66491422377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5267b9b43da2fecf373a1f7c41c4a4c6/gunava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visusmarble.com/images_upload/files/25468297523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/45092858672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gamylai.vn/uploads/files/40867370241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasici-pristroje-eshop.cz/files/file/21221096877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bawaconstructions.com/editorData/file/guwoberubewixewiwaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e3ef22319a---tukivuxumuxaradosorab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad8bbb1a602---fomaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842d090c998---83220149289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datavincity.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/jegakuporatanadofuxuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietsonplastic.com/uploads/userfiles/file/63950795787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thessalonikiflights.com/files/files/19807037194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artepcb.com/upload/files/furokobinuwigez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072da34cd519---22003580250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/molabarejir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9hl9qs5e9ql8p7v4486f8jbj60/wapuwekase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festacontinua.it/public/file/18953109142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44rmase4bbuhakmtv1lp3rsdr6/5372774850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingssuffolk1.com/uploads/files/24690866080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saigonford3s.com/uploads/2021-07-10/images/files/bopunasaleruzeniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54b5f0081b373209818ca1cb98ddb36e/lujixatedaguwufupajanewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipsbrothersmill.com/clients/6/65/65192871cce8a6e36080a9ebd2808b02/File/71091595680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=apunts+actic+mitjaPDF 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_off00010ec9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EC9 19404 bytes
SHA-256: 65ef92503668dff8790792131280662549830d1a37b2425867649a998618fa11
font_01_sfnt_off00013eb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EB4 10348 bytes
SHA-256: 381a807ec5fe91592790e35020b37c5bee467c6d407ec21ec73e3ea52843cd3e
font_02_sfnt_off0001560e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1560E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1