Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8565f0a5b2ba0b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.9 KB Created: 2021-07-07 05:56:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 5e5226bf4941abc408e7d06d2ab39b7b SHA-1: 1ed78609fee88a1039c57d1cfcc9e56b6600b0d4 SHA-256: c8565f0a5b2ba0b69991569de53d1a62d70d8fb4b3c0315af28347aadb62f7d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other potentially malicious domains. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external resources, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00c19405c9618ab47c374f3d73bc5a1e/68004075035.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/gozojinevefoxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhihoangvinh.com/uploads/userfiles/file/28213842505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71e3dec971367d378137715f9f0f3d50/xekulibuviririj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc307e33373cb9086e5a85de03d26427/59116947684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3cd89d7709---xikerowolibinopilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a355c20893b---47933799609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/40713422925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8bacda7a59---xotekufakibadevonevora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070734f7e24b---36913230307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.halpellet.hu/userfiles/files/32664618439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gumberryoleschool.com/clients/33891/File/98385648301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamker.hu/userfiles/file/47259801825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c42c15a047f9b1db737b0d895b9f4ed/7836937009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607039712744b---24328419366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a50478c5868---74214595768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770d4b7ea70---faxejug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laiyi-art.com/userfiles/file/nolefedetifodoten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://illinoislivestock.org/userfiles/file/67861453209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4o4f5b6ahuuj1bmd9ft78g9v20/kemawodufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbbjg7ctfs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dd16ae4e5544aa3cfca75ea0c624d54/tuwuvabawojedemenaduki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/rixozopobazemekododab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2bd57643b1---17571542359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anthonygillant.com/userfiles/file/zigavumaxijatases.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=blood+clot+in+anklePDF 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_off00010a5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A5C 10240 bytes
SHA-256: 6c76fa220b89d2385a7af7d0e5a8a43d2702b658efd675936aef3aa1212eb5e9
font_01_sfnt_off0001217b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1217B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001398d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1398D 17196 bytes
SHA-256: 9106d1268f7f289dab6a1087a4a7b00cdf064d25b3c049d2cda92f46b76cb57b