Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf8a08c36e014465…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 11:16:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: cbf5e1bfee491eb2d1230de5f85ca8fa SHA-1: 4588ae73cf23e546e2b2926103c057aa488acd96 SHA-256: bf8a08c36e0144656db8d05a378abed34171807dadc5636facf087d2181e9c33
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing pages, aiming to trick users into downloading or interacting with malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc610134d27---19750456224.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beed2ede407---nuviwexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m-camper.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38069355343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8788420ae2---5150631665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b231e8498b2---79834196678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e14c83e2db455b269295517f4f7a105f/mivejum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skkouty.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xevizedofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxlinder.com/admin/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72521442465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobrejaja.com/Upload/file/wefalav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamokugrofa.sk/admin/fckeditor/file/58156542201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ouhkpthaa.org/userfiles/juduzulisawiguwomobobelez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camberwelltaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/powivuluge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/51304049649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe465d38220---32330136208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alapan.org/fckimages/file/zemoxevija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flyingkirin.com/uploadfiles/file/260120048497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b490ad4f935---digubeposefogumen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatdwellswithin.com/file/sixudasewereriperunirofov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086711741190---40904818139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e794c654f124129bf8bd6aed8e0617db/lilidirufodifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vecsecity.info/editor_up/29187970812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talleresjpg.es/img/file/fomokosufejurabaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motoquadro.de/userfiles/file/xubavokisumuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=sustainable+crop+disease+management+using+natural+products+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_off0000e033.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE033 11280 bytes
SHA-256: 86651a4a9a202ef0afe6a7586cc4d128750cc122f16ae49a44c248b6ae1b99e6
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA38 19148 bytes
SHA-256: f012927622c13324246d7b586b696d22c766b3a13e0512f16b16f4eaf64c3a19
font_02_sfnt_off00012bb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BB2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1