Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8fb3e3640bc5fb82…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-06-29 02:54:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: bf61b0dc7a7a062604ba9e8069c75e8f SHA-1: 85c93fe6fa93d9e89371c2d05ade391ae9f551dc SHA-256: 8fb3e3640bc5fb8239dc98dd564a13285b3cba505bab4b873cf2ce2080db8b84
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links is a significant indicator of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

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 http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160858b965e4bd---15639851572.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a881e0dc5c178276564f85f6e155a54/15874257322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/daabcf469acf19808eeb31dac93db617/42475209461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a90dc32d414---fewagikojapatuwelukubafup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97111273286ac8ead2fb884dd11c56b5/29614839573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae017d3aaef773373060c94d9f1f1799/nigiwobeludilejejesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6b9807d5b60ff0ec860dc2f65cae039/gomekija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a66ia96ovvuh2g7si3ddl15eg/8394216717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lkbuug444jjdhf0fc4lss133so/wogizalunageselon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/348a349be5a57107d5d1bb63458dcc3c/pikujalinugofebakovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpszone.hu/upload/userfiles/file/71007362262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bda44744eda---zafulovumebomejiwen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f282077438---22749458168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094da254dc38---59607418984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etcbt.com/userfiles/file/finegizizijopufibop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawwabatrizq.com/userfiles/file/kinira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af7be259ff7---97173992686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/78453890260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c61b5e880cb---zotiwiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2476006cdd3ee65bbc0ddc98956d6754/bofokabimivavisota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zpkprzemysl.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53698672419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ecf6f72b9d---90135816035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://co-wemart.com/careeruserfiles/file/dikonatozazikezajamupunoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a8868ba124---72167561855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5fc1e31bd1c9bbf29c0917099907397/92292734764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/zisabiwabova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=abrazo+on+dysartPDF link annotation
    • http://janyska.home.pl/_mjanyska2013/fotki/file/93721766165.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_off0000c6dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6DD 16980 bytes
SHA-256: ef335c12f0e224b5fbb77b6a1675508a43039b5ef283479f69ba03e464f7f929
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010ac5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AC5 10264 bytes
SHA-256: e08e673b4de03baa53f2de0b71f816afa2690188df1de685d16aab0c61f656b5