Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8dcf3028dc5d5d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-07-08 07:20:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 52d961393a333d91b50630e5740d7796 SHA-1: 17ea8be4abe747ab6543371bdf9d78feb8b38fbe SHA-256: c8dcf3028dc5d5d775ac20de319d389c3a41ce8bea2c442bf82400ae5da5e2bb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage. The 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic suggests the document's content is designed to trick users into clicking malicious links, likely to download a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2553df01f0---pifom.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hcj5ogvape91a0k0opf4qj0b05/76221754625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3d5302ec4e---79762378790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-mebel.ru/uploads/files/22458943573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2f4e394e33569a0c89c8d7549744a23/56997881284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americanpetrochemicals.com/customers/CMS-IMAGES/file/82739217588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843b3d78313---61989619525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/neguwurisesabazari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab537419662---rozawoxadolosiginijumigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iresc578cnj171641m0c3iefed/sawevizilodebogusasonal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ag31idtlch1end7l4obg2u8ng/wikixopit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/letazumazujowomapuril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celcg.pl/uploaded/file/46134397591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7d4fdb0ef9---pifarebarusudifefile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tigaintan.com/contents//files/karuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093bcf34d5f4---52715536839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085a15221849---pedatigafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42-6kcdlkbomh7beggito5p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/rejab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ii4fbpvu7anaond67hhn2k0gd2/napan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15180274e6218954048e12bd0428fde7/mikofogigoleluberizikij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretruc.com/media/ftp/file/xuwamepekozadojoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j22aoljgvlq41m8rt6o6c88nc4/96238856898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v5rlscha19b8bppdp5a4g45o2l/nedubosorujus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=double+accounting+system+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_off0000e564.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE564 16112 bytes
SHA-256: 03069a56047fb19609141054d81ffc23dc2d0ab452fb25ef6e43caec6831c244
font_01_sfnt_off00010f22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F22 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012739.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12739 11220 bytes
SHA-256: 7391edc85f72b070fb2d8fd80e8886b174041b59d26c4bdb2fb6ca0c64eec524