Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8bff27142f817b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-07-03 20:59:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: d1457297b60c01e158a1064b68120fd5 SHA-1: dc2f8e0814280a2159f8df358ddfe02600d4dd24 SHA-256: c8bff27142f817b17f512fa6bd5b30d9589647e8354698aa2aa35ebcf576e6e7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload directories, indicating an attempt to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous links on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdb9ce257feb6f51407c893c37dc2925/jikexutuwezejodapuvafofog.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8cd8ab75ce---kevov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160819eb471c36---fovumuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091e1074baed---losulipexezopufaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://physiotherapy-warwickshire.com/user_file/file/76709491486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c803c0cce5---99881070912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apskarota.org/userfiles/file/77380805762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbcmedia.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88560344815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e1c9e91be1---49205497122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planbmedia.hufiles/vokozepuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhathuydesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6t4gm9b06anbva330tmmqo3od/90718661905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rurisnet.org/images/file/28883461793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildpflanzen-planung.de/file/dujagexonufagasetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f39bd1a171---kibix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609834b570ef5---74643457594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bem-sa.com/img/file/86463864756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/sowufivajukititevelup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bycongroup.com/UserFiles/file/mejimixajinudofobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udemadriatic.com/userfiles/files/31503317102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///nekumesepatedexasepiwug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0965818789.com/CKEdit/upload/files/34731429851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaperferiesantamariagoretti.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/waxalakizalinamigubelave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kashima.cc/userfiles/file/68722707439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s30np93j3bkkabmgq7e8vvt8d0/dagipabazazasamupobuxasif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=income+inequality+by+yearPDF 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_off0000fba0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBA0 17524 bytes
SHA-256: bf55218a1f70a618ad8a1227a637baed0f6fa68dbf0c7fbab116ea5aefbac42d
font_01_sfnt_off00012992.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12992 10672 bytes
SHA-256: bd0eb6142276cdd08eb6096fd82a11d90bc3e7e054cac9be724409239f69ad1a
font_02_sfnt_off00014201.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14201 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1