Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8c5e1a4d99f658e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-07-14 09:53:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 712c5db4adf12c5d859a11318dd4b307 SHA-1: b1f52dd5901d8cede24060f9b9cd5aca4b4c6d94 SHA-256: c8c5e1a4d99f658efe0fe9dedeca4cd97b24ad91230c7fa912245cb9c1af7671
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and a high ML score. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of numerous URLs, many hosted on potentially compromised CMS platforms, indicates a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160701c745dfd0---3789215819.pdf
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3dde084dc5---81972045471.pdf
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49pm7gbq9i6tecife7qmv1f0pt/9411797626.pdf
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094bd15aa8ba---busomakisozafelurepulapew.pdf
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079c1fa19f40---nuvaveni.pdf
    • http://iseveranscopy.com/upload/editor/file/tidamatimewenudiwal.pdf
    • http://asijskepotraviny.cz/files/file/kuteramutugejijikufadumox.pdf
    • http://samuiluxurytravel.com/Uploads/file/32682131540.pdf
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33e49c8ac28e63d601f792b3c003f2c6/70488990766.pdf
    • https://airtelco.com/data/users/_/email/files/muzafozinitener.pdf
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/249d78dd79be1bce4fcc8ad63d22cce1/notujukesit.pdf
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2a803be1fc---69901512636.pdf
    • http://ruishikaishi.com/upload/content/files/2021/06/20210616180930.pdf
    • http://woori-tour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210623_7F98F44C49F768FE.pdf
    • http://dnepropress.net/files/file/60779666440.pdf
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0816e4d99c---75583831877.pdf
    • http://zoop-tech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gerelaxuzirogajabisikosuw.pdf
    • http://uctodane.cz/UserFiles/File/joditofezinolub.pdf
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d42b93c2212---56226222007.pdf
    • http://debden.org/userfiles/file/gekururerogojafowopebap.pdf
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e998ff2e20e60431f4e729a1082cec7f/45583374870.pdf
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5d79542c58---21341150760.pdf
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088c0429619c---xamajaw.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=lebron+james+middle+school
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f60d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF60D 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010e24.bin
7b68039984a3a0be1e63b7e23442646c85a5f0d47a409512612f0e4823c9b84b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E24 10764 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012694.bin
730967e32d9b326b54b07ebb17ff090f419980fa66ae952ca1928cc9036ddcb9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12694 17780 bytes