Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8719f86ed42a858…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-06-29 16:29:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 264d49670fb2f9bf07415600789ee587 SHA-1: 34bf1988614181ac447b947d6d164fd3825564fc SHA-256: b8719f86ed42a85875a1204ffc71e3706939a18d378c9abe8e57f04329d8135f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect the user to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest an attempt to lure the user to external resources, aligning with a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=comprehension+grade+7+with+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://hzjksj.com/images/upload/File/86272274512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf55546be9d---89193996525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cae1817861a05220bd6018e66001434c/xogozigifuxinijolala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleel.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pmbga9eoq5v2cs5jp14akl56c6/fafujutodatevinowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56e051ae664f84690800d169b18bc119/69566557217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c11b3e950---95526310323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e3ca03918f---20864401277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80age2amlc.xn--80adxhks/pics/images/file/zegisivivuwizigikewemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c01uj9v07b77v4bkjrv0krfbj6/wifefegudozemawaraka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pousadamarazul.tur.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dda4053c60---tamemomopuxikazabufujem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szabobuszrendeles.hu/files/files/92339618592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envigest.cz/upload/file/nalagilimut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partner-support.net/user_data/userfiles/files/68089825589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da2b41838aa---kogatitedus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmci00gq8ef2h7nrl6cb22o4mb/26755188562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a865aa6335f8703cfe0c62e457226c7/jiropukogozorikilan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8083r1jtfl4mom2tkjo2l79ifv/konibuzifudowevaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2b08ee34ac---rumipax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q2b8lnt0j189p6mfq2i2gch5b3/seduxiguwijivumuxifid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razvozka24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af0393a4a5b0996ae08e5a235e751e61/19805997220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careersourceokaloosawalton.com/files/public/rodegisagazovivin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160907b27cb240---95250708769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2f6643929d---70003614344.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_off0000eab0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAB0 10960 bytes
SHA-256: fd14678035705f57009a39bbf2ab9838e77c7767b27709d5e660b4970e4b8aec
font_01_sfnt_off000103dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103DC 16472 bytes
SHA-256: 4ebdaedc5cf59af01e354992db70300cb956b48418a0d49613367e84825ea0a5
font_02_sfnt_off00012e12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E12 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1