Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8e2794684b6218a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-08-04 12:32:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 88eeabcc5c49d5472fea06e3ce00b198 SHA-1: 1fc54c772a09fdbce3a24bfc1d9b40b88f16cf19 SHA-256: c8e2794684b6218ae3606f6aa4fceb3667edf5dc5677f252ee83184041bef04f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or lead users to phishing sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the PDF's structure are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure, likely delivered via spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://www.deewanalarab.com/up_imgs/relupojutenob.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09cf02e5c29bb2e93f9e22e5d5731763/dupiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/883953dc4880415e3dc001abf422a04a/filidixibodeguzalal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benjamindreyer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb76394e6c596c260e6d29b2796400a0/dovupamarave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/xowid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db92e539576ac2f55777666afda9b374/57196891836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f28d3cd20---gawosapizumumuwoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bandungmesin.com/file/kuvebasetolapubusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://devison-matras.com/upload/file/66754467110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/241bd2ff568c5ac2710240444150bc33/lafini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccd3b65180---20950712637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/16107696716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b365f1ac2ee---wuvitobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phatnang.com/media/ftp/file/gafademalowur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5338b5572970c439a364d725309df7fb/3491368600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szekszardportal.hu/userfiles/file/ketuzalagudope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fecefcd8e9---vovawomogaralodexab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p8kgvmm4cas59ld0lrp8752hu2/jupawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fainitelecommunication.com/public/editorfiles/file/61679432405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cortemadera.com/wysiwygfiles/file/95149687269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa84e111016---jipimifogulave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digivideos.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40343927853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=produce+101+temporada+1+sub+espa%C3%B1ol+cap+2PDF 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_off0000c89a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC89A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0AC 17308 bytes
SHA-256: 4bbd13e4ca632aef7d6d756bba6b67d33352be31c0326c815743d6df5b647f9d
font_02_sfnt_off00010ca5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CA5 11220 bytes
SHA-256: 4aba6b57893334acf67d0cb007f4ed38e2b35a36dea49d4411ab279cb9fa762d

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