Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f172c6391d4654c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-07-13 11:55:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 12c2454eb5a8972cf0077e651497c6b7 SHA-1: e7c41fa108873dd2a7019891dd7a3f0ff0e1b634 SHA-256: 8f172c6391d4654cbf16e7fb2625a8574539bbcb9d6bc73d1b32a7dcc45a79c1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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 https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63788a010870fb7eab00cae3afb47e7e/kubukitagojabojete.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vodnik48.ru/content/file/32779961796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l0lse7suenpckul0d09bvtsu39/97933817629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160928b7c8aa39---96081332266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-junsheng.com/upload/file///202162015520616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wmehoa.org/clients/d/df/dff1b85474dadb967ea0c40f6d5e37f8/File/vutesotivipifuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kunmobile.vn/files/uploaded/20210713/file/serujoziliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e203708dcc---27676050138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/459e0948c926f43e1e6cacd6ff2804a7/jenanusapemutixogigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7aaee0ea7---xutop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32b7142a8866b0ca68ca865cec4a4a55/50387362179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608277fe3d90c---4341405208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/59139896958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ok-poland.com/userfiles/file/tonupur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jobsincrete.gr/images/_user_na/file/bagebuzixakaselevezeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160795ff205d44---noxujomejesusoxefefuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qpnaa77inlo0p4cn8igda6v66k/80295044975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/54149703616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f38d291b6f5bbf93f4ffa7f58985a768/tojujifojijenixexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namjapizza.com/app/webroot/files/bimixiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbdfe93f140---81564856802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+to+office+converter+freePDF 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_off0000c07e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC07E 10160 bytes
SHA-256: 4a985c6646a084fe11325d84a939bf8accf084a2738cfe869727a372c3d206a4
font_01_sfnt_off0000d750.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD750 15996 bytes
SHA-256: be033c9baaad608212123c5d5ec36d99b9bf4e52bc0b2d39ed5dbc4b89633ac1
font_02_sfnt_off000100c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100C1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1