Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8d47d5e5f2866c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-08-31 11:12:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 3f345350f12bdc5a380eaaa2c53470b6 SHA-1: 4fa9652765cc3abc9f8b1dc8a2d06967d27531fc SHA-256: c8d47d5e5f2866c80d5c9855984f75b4c4c6062d3487f8cd895e83b9b3451986
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lead users to phishing pages or download further malware. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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 http://cuboni.com/uploadfile/hong202106221734143207.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/dagavibiwojobulapetof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160feab7ab5a02---jejanuzarefoxule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oklogistic.lv/upload/file/nebiziwebira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1559093d7927e67c2af3545eb35f825b/maralopafuxabofuxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--b8qxb801j.tw/upload/files/58959727857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f766c93d7f---31227976680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inistor.com/ufiles/files/sowivamuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v2v840ndheklb3d8ppmf9brds3/3250659760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/056066f784676d94689245353a8efe9e/59661513285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edu-mate.kr/_UploadFile/Images/file/xixodusofekedolis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://t-p-fortune.com/userfiles/file/88427847604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccbdd2e5b0---82704415559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akonis.ch/userfiles/files/1511109478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ado1acngnp8h7l199d58n7r37/44396046247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uctodane.cz/UserFiles/File/teburaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87254e728f8ce432201c7174ecc92c01/naworuwukipupifafeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://king-tableware.com/uploads/files/202108191608258147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://libertyrealestate.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dewikoxexojewupamufesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vssteel1999.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/bajeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3q1p.com/upload/file/210623201702361376igvc437zseyj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arch-teh.com/pic/userfile/sajopetedude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prshots.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17640760792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9n2bn9mz3aba29g44r4o0a.kr/fckeditor/userfiles/image/pegenowerexirawuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fed22878105cd6bc546ba95c9f228f5/60433648226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=reverse+cash+and+carryPDF 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_off0000c9d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1E6 20664 bytes
SHA-256: 84de00d33de446654a1850e36359cf56d78f8368fce31f5b546a33f4ab1df078
font_02_sfnt_off00011710.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11710 10336 bytes
SHA-256: 9019774ac191838ac8a9a988f0f308c45b9e6dc320b6916ddb523d9c48633faa