Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8fb36ab8b2b6c552…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 23:57:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8e3f8d1d1385f7e11d88a14cb1b99989 SHA-1: cf17e59e9823dead8fd9e3648971dfd12320a0bf SHA-256: 8fb36ab8b2b6c552644abecf55307d8204558609db7df2cf62f8fa491d8d0235
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9872

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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 http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d988e59902---51550038897.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/977a5c157ca54d522a0555dbb55987e4/rivisesatupatemigotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8l9k313j23ome2md61frq977f/bosubatumometevupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a26d6628e2677fa744a8ca16210e65a7/92140109434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b2ddb60a4---5606711791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/zudasewizukusuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf3ebefd9b---resarexajanimevadomofud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aligokdemir.com/resimler/files/68612525015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e55406ccac---80607345521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9774e08ffd---34253211564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catequesisnavarra.org/guiarte_userfiles/files/fakob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093c54380b38---votoviruxorezoneku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c667663e02d5555594443c47502f01fc/zarosef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/kifup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slezanie.eu/userfiles/file/mazewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/4211985241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7asape1qae4cgu9kgq93vq7gns/supanoluzokinimoxufixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lavaecucebrescia.it/file/71681123363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atreve.eu/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/majugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dolgoprudny.ru/upload_picture/file/89073861173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdbbgr6bv0fetp0suh2nghmapv/5276712212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc4a9eeeab68671a5185a482559f3672/masuzugidegoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuzeyilac.com/resimler/files/vatobobawaralaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc16ce916481f72e007ed9a1ea8ff47f/wodavineke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=feast+in+chinesePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010806.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10806 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012018.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12018 17908 bytes
SHA-256: 5c77d1efb692a58b6d65d7ae7527e08733b12a6580f994c257453d6885dd7c78
font_02_sfnt_off00014ead.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14EAD 8772 bytes
SHA-256: ace1b73358eace6c93de9a5282467e1100a7467cbe06332405380b445e5e2574
font_03_sfnt_off00016ab1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16AB1 10036 bytes
SHA-256: 66c5542640b1761905164327f3f2bb0b0e09e0642d4ca6dd2b3d5c70de49b5b4