Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8bc0969c75b89ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-07-06 14:53:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: fdbda8e6ec82dfd468c8f968fa36644a SHA-1: cc2078447dfa012a4dffd373e0a688177270baeb SHA-256: c8bc0969c75b89ea081225140c649f7d567dab30a012f9fdf53e1c974c915ba8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs clearly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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 https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089e6443bf1f---ligetogerodaras.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://geneticapanama.com/userfiles/file/79528712102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laptopplus.be/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/25120117077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd62d93ea3---56938621946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a455de3b9de---84878745584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095c6d79638a---677280601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a0edf0038f6d865fcd78d1861dc3dc8/tozarozofewifer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2mus.ca/clients/b/b1/b1ca46fdb12d68e762e4a8b3318caec0/File/82185784911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b7a9d34a11---samox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://milsagliksen.org/upload/ckfinder/files/beduxijojiwuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7312baa76c---nisufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16sq3a1j2c9iv1psu4un32jp9m/durapotixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://outspokenholland.com/userfiles/fckFile/20210614231342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleiberit.ru/files/file/sowabejetadep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/917c9a5a0166d178bde1b7732048e799/31856243289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffde34b87ba39448a15cfb959fbf9815/metis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090511631c6a---73747747546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ydis.kr/userfiles/file/23222130114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e46af08edd8250176a818d3c822a720a/92667843079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/lovokobifoxujakux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2ce1a63a0e---6694500766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2mm71ndjtoibn5fvkh2o0jjfkf/jimebafabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fd6e5641233e12454f1e31f4ad416ee/musovejudiwijok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jorkurojus.com/userfiles/file/kulunefulexuguxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=got+what+i+need+songPDF 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_off00010781.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10781 17032 bytes
SHA-256: bb6cb7d3fb34f7a6b13aff59794bf10e7e35078b284f3623cc8853386a4183da
font_01_sfnt_off000133e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014bf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14BF9 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 36f1536c360576278c0a0d0d8da3687abdeb85662cbfa4800ba583510a565e69