Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8ac76e4f79b4608…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 15:48:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 07a0c38598b4138f0e577ad0ce6d5e63 SHA-1: 0e67007876a25d40a7108c82071492e9fd9f04d2 SHA-256: c8ac76e4f79b46083ba824411181615027f35fcb3f013bb6e77888e11c2712d2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or manipulate search engine results. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of UTM parameters further support this link farm characteristic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1osfp9d87i6v33guk6h3ii61q2/24709168335.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ldoris.com/upfile/files/20210703194356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barcelona-health.com/files/galeria/files/60468878879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f1ca880f3---zudaxefikutafumenepaxoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukmriptek.org/codeIgniter-hmvc/userfiles/files/nogonipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietkevuphong.com/uploads/image/files/keregatajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/smi9rbd9uuaj2p0diqt79sdfu8/zepixopagem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dde2fe71ac8---68214175540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scantech3d.com/files/vilaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/13192524964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c69444656d2ccf9e62e5b25f09ce054/sisawewivegusireminiguso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sztarmedia.hu/_user/file/fitagijujoroxokezun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamedunyasi.com/calisma2/files/uploads/88545826955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madang.eu/f_pds/fck/file/27707441163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stock2morrow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zenegixelosejazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkhighclassof60.com/clients/871169/File/kudosusezafegewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160752b4704617---bimifupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161166908bf95e---didivezepelosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/53567513293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebeautyofdesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76351806242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/mimudizoditibegopelupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f70db12d86---nevagobukof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a761717761---22541589092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=construction+contracts+pdf+freePDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4518e88754d82dd278ad21b3ed6a8ed0/46069818583.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_off0000d5c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5C3 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 74d319d10ca47e63e7fed4058d4f7fe288f51f174a5137607bb96af83adf1c60
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE82 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010694.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10694 16976 bytes
SHA-256: e083b59a7abb8b01ef3680aa0893867ac7ca98073ebbb6fe20ebf6adb0f27fb2