Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8e54dff9d2dcae9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-08 02:07:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 11f72255114145920738c9071f822c94 SHA-1: c567bdb7fcd196c108412242a1d71fa58ed7dbf8 SHA-256: a8e54dff9d2dcae993e7138dffdd05383e60977e4eb7dcfdb0183fb0cc7ea147
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45b1cf92bfc894981d7509fd5eeab65c/23720504210.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/penorexokanevurujuzirusow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa921adf123---72724939455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088a3002e84a---korabadizusigotagajig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55ddaac44de5c7567da3e9969fc08825/32640498248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://17njl.com/userfiles/files/80176222022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bantinnhadat.com/users/files/99161424585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9feb75b00a45959e078488c4742d13dd/640422561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26534e41624a2e0aa7ebb2b8c974f7f9/borimarekibudon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160972d2f58c10---tamurerefizos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vicotelecom.vn/static/source/images/file/13118390900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daiichigroup.net/uploads/news_file/jikibolatusimojogixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesahighclassof63.com/clients/79820/File/78037165472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-30/20210430085527639152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/41052199404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u8uo7ifjni3vqedqkeap7f20a6/82740921863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gloriamus.org/Uploads/userfiles/files/71422639032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gakavsji7171a7hu2s9u29v765/rizinevemifalepatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centroolosprato.it/userfiles/files/62997318142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elvirajogsi.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bemikagozitet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84c8c38232bf1d1627c3a7ef0205f25d/76483910977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nadiadsa.org/userfiles/file/meromofudirekimuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emailreceptionist.net/userfiles/file/54384937779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/kokidovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160807050c5ef1---tixisamusunaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/11701525705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=paradigma+constructivista+en+la+educacion+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_off0000ca8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA8A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e29c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE29C 16336 bytes
SHA-256: 1c877b6fad39b0e2c3ca64503ae90265da80f54a6bbacd0a77a839519151bac8
font_02_sfnt_off00010b60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B60 11132 bytes
SHA-256: f9aeb2caedf0739e2cb4526f01ee8cad04fa57b774c82e10f1a3d3b726bd6dec