Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ff331b4c332ddab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-06-19 11:32:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 47c58b201d30775b2ff207bafa99639f SHA-1: 7890466e3efdc4f0406adb28b75ef5c359deef1d SHA-256: 8ff331b4c332ddab1f0b120e7348f8aeed524ce3551388ecdd42fed050f5d804
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, designed to lure victims with a fake 'Free Windows XP upgrade' offer. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to deliver a phishing payload or malware. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs and heuristic firings suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://aahsclassof1978.com/clients/b/b6/b6117739535924054831d33ecd54b00a/File/78133685078.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/modukadumokabon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3cdb116vtfc1673550mqjeue3/63178250343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb07b39fcaf---67725102486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eab1e9f653---58108201859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608acde881169---49637851090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qogp082i92qj7tb2dkocm08oe8/vofezamumamuzuneju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160858896a2e06---73093776217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/97090535930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dg8uhrm07eog3i8349vg8sa2lr/kulisizavidep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aee389c1441---xanisugobudopoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewaves.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2g56i591o9ro7t2j4u0ji83lj3/36174507476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://101doctor.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/60b10db3b84fa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1dd7227258---jivunafizip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amursvoidom.ru/media/files/wagajuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c9ad40897c65bf175abbd2f84d82c22/poroxiwivorukejabadoxivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098351ac5d31---pafijizeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d73f3c73f486f34c67d8471e3f40ecd6/39247625357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=free+windows+xp+upgradePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e813.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE813 5212 bytes
SHA-256: 44070e1fc2ae8aec808396519a4c764254a27fbeb8249080d79dc9a6d32b02c6
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9F7 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 9563a04fbcf22033f30db32b98ff5448bf61115b353062cc47ff9d1591b5543b