Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f7ad056cd68cfa3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 02:20:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 2a3da50e2c1bc6731aae7e3780d17855 SHA-1: 0654b4e763837bf6692e592bbd80efee64bb880d SHA-256: 8f7ad056cd68cfa3b05806e2e0a57e61bdb2679f8371dd15df02e51a466daeee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics indicate a pattern of using disposable or compromised hosting for link farms, a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://www.letspassdriving.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mson7jqni6v8pn4okeh1gm986t/xofogaduwijesujasox.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://munsusa.org/userfiles/file/20210630143822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v4vj0j53uuaoipt4ruu3bun79m/koxojufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmhu.eu/uploads/uplib/file/puvori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9cc4146b0577a53123f7c128ad70191/bufefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://llux.vn/uploads/files/703978384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiostocchi.eu/userfiles/files/pedomezupugelowixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9954f93510---jukobufonatotifusesudanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinoboxingclub.com/clients/36032/File/44140164782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c52f2686a90---47321494463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bladmedyczny24.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b922e22b50efa70e47b4411e5743236/kejonevakumudejoful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solucionaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/majinuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://styliststudios.com/imagesTE/file/40753936006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2f1e9062d8---jefenifijop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toptehnik.si/images/56977818649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/476a60836ca1b0f198162d0c6e64dd78/wapusifozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimar.ua/userfiles/files/43342283510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/42719560785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4qp1mchk5rpl5oasbemsb4m7m5/fopiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibleyestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zuzisulagimilibaduvepires.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalycity.com/wysiwygfiles/file/jabujor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68114435173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chothuethietbi.info/img/files/suguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=mechanical+vibrations+wiley+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ad260d1c1e0f40d2e3f4cc86439f7e0/texopitekitefefifux.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_off00012082.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12082 18808 bytes
SHA-256: ce91ceda403620829a382a471976a327b453ab1fd2c0cf6803e7ff5860ec43f4
font_01_sfnt_off000151f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x151F9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016a10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16A10 11116 bytes
SHA-256: f3be41c8beacf3c228e3405949471b31a272df7680a99568f590cfcce2598acb