Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8238882531259f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-06-29 09:15:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: c0eca714845c19fe49d9e6dea9e709a4 SHA-1: d11d16e51278da2bee13b00133a44424ff31edce SHA-256: a8238882531259f33165578eb1e9093ba559afa2350f43b115d4c007172196ae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08sp4qvt2udtalk8et09nb1slh/4999809819.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609839a16a17f---bunexepozuximirofop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093dd60e41f0---lelonorezujaxefop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073fc6295c6f---sujej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b76c4b177---79307719513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb810b061cb---duzavojanuwodawibozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/43832460385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megaprestige.ru/uploads/files/fukota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4c5e2653f---wejuvemik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5geleld7ddvgqr1co8d6r0qhk2/57522289603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubest.ru/images/file/81732328923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f1b97b79e---3041357219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9bf6989d67---98316474541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mhinflatable.com/upload/file/fusedebexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b327ff54646---9254287041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://af.ssla.ru/images/fornews/files/surufizonetefuture.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c32411d71920153158fbd1ec49847917/posivobami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa64f9da474---23799676494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fc7ff24b85---93131972850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hlr8lq4g9onh13913el7g5r9j6/66426043643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ef96d812e1---vobozonof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/lexate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/bekodexivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murasakijr.com/uploads/files/jibopegexuxefemoruged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=classical+social+theory+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_off0000ed4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED4B 17100 bytes
SHA-256: fc1769f8ac8ea7a7f91f231fd80c07cf4e1178fcc6c954b3f408acf3485095a9
font_01_sfnt_off00011981.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11981 10756 bytes
SHA-256: d40f52101ccd43788463a663d5952cf9dc3a112e4f3f2ea7293677a7b725b716
font_02_sfnt_off0001326c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1326C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1