Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8bcebdf330b4b66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.6 KB Created: 2021-07-13 04:52:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 062b514a2b3ae2faaa029e5043810bef SHA-1: 45f1a5b7d686c4eefaca201b877ac6d07a2f812b SHA-256: c8bcebdf330b4b66ad0b582d8d890e74751aeeb12884385a6528e2a993227c84
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=other+words+for+vagina PDF link annotation
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b0377af257---20726088634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicobonoli.com/userfiles/files/kofabofakeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ua089rlucm36e4i9jv19h9q820/repeminawonuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bscartridge.com/pic/kodokomowomitusegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfac9457742---kokeximuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a44542cfe---tixifulepovamekaxenepinat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k5rv7eu40qida4qrkosb3nkvbk/92859943191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moreit.ch/productinfo/file/nuwavonebefobutimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba1d0062288---22432216251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c469f9d2316---suwekarovibegerul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricionintravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07fc1ca5efc740a8899d610949b2120f/zefoburujofewobokozeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parokisantolukas.org/Uploads/userfiles/files/mubivufoferanozeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af742833a04---67231201170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/11926143932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ece6ad7defd4cee6befa11ac92980eb/36691639292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087e035a25b5---36250372610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609199670d223---4058365641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avayemehr-carpet.ir/data/file/dawigokatetaxinerasipisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a1d073993437301816d06ea41ec92fc/17557874665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budka39.ru/files/zitorovam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071baad12dd5---86019311772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airholic.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/20907603193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gavinlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/29083875110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d93621349c4f54c286774fbb04f6a63c/95813429799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c420031be34---22695552440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biothiennam.com/media/ftp/file/guvilugojimagelevulaf.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_off0000fd2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD2C 18724 bytes
SHA-256: 851247318788846076e0715963cb13e5197a414b3f82a304f07940a3a04ea147
font_01_sfnt_off00012c94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C94 10764 bytes
SHA-256: b05059e0d3a5cf0a6d196d240ce75bda7788439628976e7a66b9701102d4506a
font_02_sfnt_off0001453b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1453B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1