Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8fd0514ad2505af0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 14:20:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 89c0deed5fb2e5f2aed57dd4e703e6a0 SHA-1: ae0bf6761951a2ab162eb969133ae0b2472f2f3c SHA-256: 8fd0514ad2505af06a8935b0a54d5a4c4cdffb76f922a3f7202659fc3b242af2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, detecting it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely to lure users into downloading further malicious content or visiting phishing pages. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of formcraft plugin uploads suggest a coordinated effort to distribute malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160760b3c9c102---39944333349.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d6a1f5c526---73193145181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imreelectric.sk/uploads/file/74150938297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiooro.com.mx/media/images/uploads/files/mobafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/549ad99ccd488578e64a2a713a42e5fd/gibatupigavozaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patroha.hu/file/56263539417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viswinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/jovenujedulorupab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608049f7585c0---kinosadoxazoden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16126e3795b579---bawig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajskiewakacje.pl/userfiles/file/lagaxibumaliruraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn-----6kcaheblih5ab0a6afqbzoqe.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nukoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miet-boot.ch/images/uploadedimages/file/83734023616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/set5a4im1hlbvfdsnsh3n6u3lm/98873645045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaeram.com/userData/board/file/57183730764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a28f2fd8e28---zuduwivisepasaluwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comfortinnbarrie.com/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/dodudatexapoxitibumekopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinzimoniofiumicino.eu/userfiles/files/82767176330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160914aa906179---lajuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.web-globus.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vozot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d2e637ffc4---gezakuvid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42f707ccca9fc0057881ba8b38342307/71963683713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pg4onbiilec3im5p6pf6iupqi5/27472367468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efm0k77p5alhkc8q5c0a96976t/96351210438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f8071ed9ad---povavawusizop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=solved+problems+on+convergence+and+divergence+pdfPDF 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_off0000baa7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAA7 17740 bytes
SHA-256: f00a83d0fa8a6dc55b5ac8e89ebcad3d4ade3b89aeb163cecf481cb32a58c90b
font_01_sfnt_off0000e89e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE89E 11144 bytes
SHA-256: e2985585e571620db84b1b7b7feb5127a2b2570e4ba72206ae40d2aedeac2cac
font_02_sfnt_off00010230.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10230 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1