Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f8bef76af5d7d16…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-07-04 19:00:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 15057b8c0de28aa838d3b5469be7d940 SHA-1: dea8ad31b0a916d77e16106be89d65a5a0c58666 SHA-256: 8f8bef76af5d7d16fc0b89b24653986a8aad7e7d50af6a2f4311a2168f3788a7
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links indicates an attempt to lure the user to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=three+types+of+asexual+reproduction+in+plants
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fca55bbcb955d0b1afbbcdc1df4b5a7/vuforowaw.pdf
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a7d2e89bdcb6c24c7356112a56441f0/wuvemubinebubawajeferak.pdf
    • http://cokhihoangvinh.com/uploads/userfiles/file/8024504697.pdf
    • https://bisnismedsos.com/userfiles/file/13362912294.pdf
    • http://sb-78.ru/files/file/21510365639.pdf
    • http://ebslang.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/89078597722.pdf
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f518b8cd28---rotipuduvidapatuwufi.pdf
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15c1d1b30c72b43117eae1541780b8e0/zoxilelakuvunudutu.pdf
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/6475229002.pdf
    • https://agenciaboom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q4m728lpe5afpm3n46hn2oktb7/lopowuraviteno.pdf
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091b8351e999---46160871.pdf
    • http://fred-robin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90869077167.pdf
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aadebf4f5fe---81123516884.pdf
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c266c1a40d---dubeturirazexovagoge.pdf
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b249bd61879---lewupenizapemekifuzuxopo.pdf
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k5c9ac1eb88l9vrjip6j0tftfk/11079056336.pdf
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a68b42d6db2---jetamizisitagalowu.pdf
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99abcdf0cb158e29ae6a46fbc72027f7/lepezizojelotulini.pdf
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/figisakagiwifa.pdf
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f7a262d3fb60c46a174ebc17bcdd836/46897580696.pdf
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e83509fb6b---53849349843.pdf
    • http://ministerium.pt/files/togikol.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f1c4.bin
7a72e179575ced9786892aacb94ca139656c9d6735d2f795857b589966a82953
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1C4 16548 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011d1a.bin
80ef866ad48674e42a86ed095cacbd02390ed0b292134f7701f8ff5abd485359
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D1A 10996 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000136a3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136A3 16792 bytes