Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f2315a1e6c35aaf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 19:33:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0eb4b157163baf412365b84de89321ff SHA-1: a896c4887887016f08a46934c5ceeeb9f3749caa SHA-256: 8f2315a1e6c35aaf8844120b7dd8f64bdd6b4b232529c9746c28a44593685107
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports this malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=convert+pdf+to+word.+documents+doc+to+pdf+-+ilovepdf PDF link annotation
    • https://carrieres-pierre.com/userfiles/file/31015138226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skvely-kup.cz/files/file/35670357128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicodavico.eu/userfiles/files/40576787956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inventory-acepipe.com/images/uploads/files/32125695842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dqsv1vf420gp838isprmpu9j12/63974752815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kl39c730qr0thns5cg5dqelcg6/40812432913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01b7f8ca63e0a25d22507a0d54fd2401/mivaduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariabilancino.it/userfiles/files/96739861486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f9d0f499fe---rakusin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontlinetherapist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d44df097b2a4353a2e16b6a494cb17ff/80585546857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarpaket.ru/userfiles/file/tigoraxepilamekun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muszempilla.com/files/file/81506314524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bff0c413398---mobivadazez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dda7c155305---nilobapuxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161219c41a86b4---gonopegumobipekesilujif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilspa.ro/userfiles/file///98197572074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htapigroup3.com/contents//files/robulafukekuvokonekonib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--22cjbbm2eyae3ehabdb4kqdtae3dxnnc1fhf.com/user_img/files/69669390024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malabarmail.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xekepokuzakusukojiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaae7amexjfdlfdfg.xn--p1ai/files/file/48522660045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609269629b660---mugubodezub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdbim.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/75279352245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e36e97ja0iq1g7r8lc4575h11/86089001530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transmar.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40577364271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hobbes-group.com/upload/files/gazoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkkpcm.org/userfiles/xemugawenufataxodotarikol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000cc15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC15 16360 bytes
SHA-256: c339c601cd2ff2c148008c206db34db91f2eb24ba796d13d5ef4aaab7c14d83e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f699.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF699 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010eb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EB0 11000 bytes
SHA-256: c0e49c675c1714cc12d3aaffe9f444d5e08533a6e3fd3c223cebf7d81e20c7eb