Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8281e6653d483e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 05:47:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 20a1ff53c23f8cd2e2b675100e5afa7e SHA-1: 302398e0cf7bc4ec9460c1e630af4929068c07ca SHA-256: a8281e6653d483e0094f4d20df9df76635a0c14c0e0afdeeb79b34c8f0765c93
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or to host phishing content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91231755ef0c88c53baf9c2c1ab9263b/2057734954.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bursac.net/userfiles/file/likisulowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca011fc3b27554eb97cfaab7f953a690/67353836603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f9c008a274ea1225ad3d24309e2f87b/popoxepikodifepiwibuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c79f962abb9---51367970358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6bfb32f09---34770716998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1mssvdvho0vd5v7u98setriipi/29349869383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbigniewrodak.pl/galeria/file/39527717832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cba36099a5c---21631473190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study4student.com/cache/fck_files/file/53234328787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sov.tranovice.org/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zubobagixigopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanglassgroup.cn/userfiles/file/pubezudesumoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://randalljroutson.com/clients/44711/File/powibipivaruvib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8fec4c79a3---40069949058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f49320d621---womomulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b55e15bc2681dc8a29e4b4aa6a6820d/wejiwixolotireloniburuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irish-setter-zucht.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pefudenavirikigifofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nandeestationery.com/userfiles/files/tumuguxoxawulibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa84482a86c1c5d805fbe3858b05d1b3/38388571758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvhs1967.com/clients/a/aa/aa78cb05297cd93d8a9ab6bd1eb8a3c4/File/88594114460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novelinternationalschool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puribimurepitagulubove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minicabii.com/survey/userfiles/files/85491058931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39b8493cf1b024d8c254492a1bc58f2a/nivutud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=ncert+solutions+for+class+11+maths+permutation+and+combination+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161216c2c85a31---29639437284.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_off0000e428.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE428 18288 bytes
SHA-256: eb4e22961e15db76d8e871bebef49d8052119a12131d34c69101775925527790
font_01_sfnt_off000113b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113B6 11152 bytes
SHA-256: e774ce4f0781330803d9ee3d5653eb483e7a90c1dcf5072f04cc24dfec4a3780
font_02_sfnt_off00012d67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D67 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1