Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8b1378d17557ca3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.4 KB Created: 2021-07-31 20:07:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ae3bf7934445adf29a684f3ffa1f6661 SHA-1: 78ec2fd09652197c5538ca2de17d14fe7b769296 SHA-256: c8b1378d17557ca3b209e5b516e03b5e1a1d803713507e8954c34ac541a07025
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classification and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious files. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports the phishing and malicious download intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.peritaonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wifovuga.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9d0af25448---67429622586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tspinstruments.com/cache/fck_files/file/71573519309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitalsyndic.com/userfiles/file/fatapanipuvoxori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pv3hva9b8kibh49e6kaphk6i85/zitolidosexexororixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonere.shop/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/sikijidegaviwuwinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e37581f582---75129187752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/file/tomokosoragipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b89t0vnfvij2gel1tdaoghhsi/vunateduremar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sxhk365.com/uploads/file///runisugozapotexexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pumarecovery.com/userfiles/files/jomada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shihtzufurbabies.net/clients/d/d3/d383cf0c90cf2d2391705d5438694b4c/File/woberip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airsoft1.ro/files/file/77377654995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bd0faf71e91563e467ea22735897ed3/39969320332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josephfellerlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wulotasabakusunan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/28179270065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlygiaylynhua.com/upload/files/rozewulogor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b04fed70d98---33303599384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/32755436692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isosklo.cz./uploads/20063868552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotang.net/userfiles/file/3467555786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rjbmachinery.com/d/files/vexegimaxagaganiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dgt48kffp4h5t96u64g9d9elcm/87917592938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=personal+finance+and+investment+excel+templatePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010501.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10501 16192 bytes
SHA-256: e2ad764752cd4be5999c18614362e0cea8e9c563e7196d76fd0086f860ccaf5d
font_01_sfnt_off00011a8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A8E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000132a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132A0 17132 bytes
SHA-256: 093eaf4e26c8a679b066fce81699b0458a89248acc6c3a2429fdf9e839e531eb
font_03_sfnt_off00015f10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15F10 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 8ae65b49dd5d699ee8d13da37120b282af8312cd036a68b2a194dceaa21b8d9b