Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8bd7aed0e78766b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

143.9 KB Created: 2021-08-08 01:42:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 7e1f54caed2b02301e681098837f4cf1 SHA-1: 0886cfc4fd990200ccb9d4d81431b416867fcc60 SHA-256: c8bd7aed0e78766b7473d935440fcb82f169681fd3b8308b7604969707cccb14
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9761

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=abbasid+caliphate+government+structure PDF link annotation
    • http://webursitet.org/Files/file/rupidagetotogusujorojuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aihr-iadh.org/uploads/FCK_files/file/17714968713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16ed1738f4525a71aed31bb73d82d2eb/dawifamefepujej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f7eccbc7a6---27846906214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74e3d3d3eb4f736330183d77af26f25f/32528294974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://revucue.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79858724165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd59c99febb---46444625768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dq1i008j7fn585vdiueqs8htm/zibokedit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9db6b652e043e82f7d9c7415d3ea7f96/85340116926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b18d1d960d---36677068840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpitalstrzelin.pl/userfiles/files/fepujadumipowazox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhahanghienminh68.com/upload/files/ranemikuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvugiayphep.biz/upload/ck/files/71626135673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://escaletravel.com/userfiles/files/34164944582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/48739113874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qjfideld2qku7v7vpv6nfi357n/kikenekuzazezaxonisiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saxonsaxtonfamilyreunion.com/clients/f/f6/f6d0431f970e0833b0867c311dafb132/File/20302672034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohmytour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210722_FBB310AF476D7044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l9v7t8i3kns1j1ea9olb3bn7b3/pexibipabogurimog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://howsonfamilyreunion.com/clients/5/57/57b8fe7d350e782a16e6afc8bdcd6467/File/xoludugukedaforolavuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ade49993e03---53346923604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiemhoahaibara.com/data/dulieu/files/tidewete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertoantoniz.com/resources/original/file/mijapibujumesem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahamianbrewery.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97552756623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/rigobigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c365f817cede7b171b7b10100d0005c1/negadoginavazuzitikivasab.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_off0001d0cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D0CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001e8e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E8E4 11248 bytes
SHA-256: e08094fa3a93bf1a80b1973c70ad5e54248b357a0de19a080f42eab600609752
font_02_sfnt_off000202b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x202B4 18072 bytes
SHA-256: 533e23b42517e5a8a9091cefbce6acf2879e4f969843e8d36f8f484db3e5d172