Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8d84729142fbcd1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

141.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 12:30:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 12e1aa174c9d011b66dff6e2f51629a5 SHA-1: 729e00f42e7925617d706f2117ddceb7def77fb1 SHA-256: c8d84729142fbcd18fb1a654c5ea4f96ce8d9ddcd9d17c937839ac4f2ce5e5f7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or facilitate phishing. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The presence of multiple links on potentially compromised infrastructure suggests an attempt to obscure the final destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c0f83c8e8---23163352939.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.tokyomagic.jp/images/library/File/kawepuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpspcb.com/uploads/files/xegibojatubidonagalelizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenno-tojestto.pl/userfiles/file/42560207945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160948ec531264---mogoxumeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylgems.com/file_media/file_image/file/sabixetimojanobuxizeruwun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/of7hb7pl6c763b6ejin0t2p900/zonigusomosobikefomosoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.eu/slicice/file/1130940500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23cc548c0784583e3131572fb96b717b/43482013347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://openendrep.com/userfiles/files/xitaxowejalukezasaderade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afe3120c58a---43052218640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/zoxuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halaljones.com/uploads/files/86664873638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecolservizinettuno.com/userfiles/files/90600223054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g93mu5qeh2k6bmrpcn1nk0odgm/30662447605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsound.ro/images/custom/file/jurigidavorizetox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/99856436317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g24apm2acr4488r110opnjlmbq/25816613182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086dd640e8aa---16376254711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/vemerisakibiwafivupapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniquecharacters.com/upload/files/37953540770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e51269f90d---6690539911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25bc45bb0a2fad1e0a731efb78711443/82035026027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tasarimak.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ponowuvuwasovivav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=instrument+rating+manual+pdfPDF 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_off0001c534.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C534 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001dd46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DD46 19736 bytes
SHA-256: b63a6a80ebce25b73f6521051acb7255381a4ec635b129adf1211306d73c7f5c
font_02_sfnt_off000210d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x210D9 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 155c7ea3ec1782a8339129ae26b5e829b5254d06cbf4afddaa9a8539e604f114