Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8ddd6ab062fdb16…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 10:22:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 9d566c351fb9579b908e497069ac6f4e SHA-1: 623328f0ca45890603c1703ca4a934fbbd70677c SHA-256: c8ddd6ab062fdb166f69bf8749d95c4ba950ae8a15682fa0318efd3c2425127d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, specifically within plugin upload directories. These links are structured as a link farm, a common technique for SEO manipulation or to host malicious payloads. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

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 http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f57b9d0ee8---12743093477.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a963fc8be42---supetelexeradudud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62dhu50h0qerkgigu698lcg196/domavetixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074fe5eb4b2f---kejesis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/35548835468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/9566006233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a877229785---32548440298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/95870067832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdf2ba4a997e7aa1b098c6fd1938d35e/semaleridavipavajiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b5e8852387---gimogusoniwila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique-u.biz/images/uploads/file/27075171045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/46452747358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crmloccitanecr.com/campannas/file/25861862571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160746076d3c5a---xujilimap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nexidia.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f21fab02bd3716c43a5d7b84402fd891/1299595280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/25452855099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teranor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/turam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hosvagyok.hu/userfiles/file/92143655858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8c2d74a7e4---74064907180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adde54d4862f61b197476afce72d3ec3/zijotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pagyesa.org/userfiles/file/20210619075416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salubrismd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3eee87df21839ae3f9d8216abeaf3a8e/lobibuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607634d827e85---77660980560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba915661970bbc57fd54d39ee1aef416/32521324161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adarshvidhyasankul.org/userfilesfile/jujitipejij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/jowuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c95779cb8e4---topomufuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=200+usd+to+nisPDF 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_off0000c218.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC218 16696 bytes
SHA-256: 675a6e9f6c4d7e7933a375836081516f254786b7be50ccfe8c91adb45bd71f8f
font_01_sfnt_off0000edfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDFB 10044 bytes
SHA-256: 72906de61b9a3fd590858b56d38a1d3b67f337f370b9b28bac4d4254102e2801
font_02_sfnt_off00010476.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10476 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1