Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f3711cc30ec0880…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-08-18 13:25:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 77b091179285e8b5b0618986f20ceea3 SHA-1: ca63690d66df7febb65a48899ad3ceeb07c29ef4 SHA-256: 8f3711cc30ec0880d03c46dca10c5ebefd78c07421643963daa3eb07c08470d6
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1553.004 Mark-of-the-Web Bypass

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. The presence of a 'Security software disable instruction' heuristic strongly suggests an attempt to bypass security controls. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the heuristics indicate it contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely for malware distribution or phishing. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and heuristics point towards a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9925

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
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • 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 https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8e2433efb18e45ddc9c25014fe80839/zasefopotur.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcbaaa5cdd3---17515405275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seednseed.com/admin/fckfiles/file/31154202376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba115eef894061778960d2b2ae2c6a5d/5224031229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a9a21bd7ca---dubunurexep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160820718ec15a---21581333151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternatifmedikal.com/img/userfiles/files/soloboxasewedaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aeb1d70c13c---94966975308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a967253e9c---52916638041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suankaew.net/upload/userfile/files/25654770458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071eb2c912c0---54829895867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elite-nails.pl/Upload/file/lubovanoriko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boumqueur-edition.com/upload/fckeditor/file/lokarotuvokaxepizel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnhaduong.com/images/uploads/files/5577628582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160841a662f9b2---vazulenog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signexpowholesale.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/javoworokut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biosafety.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/veduwelabubunege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b85801b526a---71809255989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelbellevuepalermo.com/userfiles/files/23317670055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zit-tech.com/userfiles/files/majuravojafarixazin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komputerzagrosze.pl/userfiles/file/pumidigoxozuduror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9inrr54loft8rincede5t5tb73/nagepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca30548544d---7326401420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee3c3f51d4339f62513ddd27c1a419cc/27143539814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burelomdo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/migafomorolotub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n2nnetworks.com/files/others/wozufokodoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=slow+performance+issue+windows+10+hpPDF 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_off0000e141.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE141 11220 bytes
SHA-256: 42bdc5c8826f7f3daf50ca2be62b913f65ee35b72922d63d71dbe9af8d1a1179
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB66 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011378.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11378 16752 bytes
SHA-256: dd1a3418a2e3e0847edab6f1e38ec61c927530bc91c78a6f5b91735942b8610b