Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8f49f98fa62c95a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-05-15 04:54:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 8afeaf510f23d77f2983c0abf355ddea SHA-1: 0ab818b57c9084bb715100318b5a915bb7abacab SHA-256: c8f49f98fa62c95aafd1540702ac086b3f313f4644942e7904337c7bc8d0c04b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, a common technique for distributing malicious content or phishing lures. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest it's designed to lead users to external malicious resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cf54eaef08---30467531588.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bstqarhff1r2e5apijhs9qr8jp/59646861976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nk7an76raj9jcfdlfkkt9uae86/nirixosekizaxewog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldara-latinoamerica.com/userfiles/file/kabapaxogolosodinif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisnismedsos.com/userfiles/file/60630157253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gleneaglehoa.org/images/file/danobikovosanipelurufunow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmykominkowe.pl/Obrazki/edytor/file/puvetizosadapemajufugij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f88f01fdd4f90d86c604bf0efee14f2f/mitatenadasejopujomif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4fa8304a6159ea30e74caf25f86ca4c/94215997936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609afde80142c---lokamob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609892f6adbae---68306471904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adf17f13078552f0dfa737f0adff8914/sapumajixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a03d474e76---8762629688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079052467f91---13772098402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4b01hsgs3mtfgrimt8191ud02/sutanuxanenuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2d915218f2f8476ceb013e5e35c4651/zeduxewesifetufaduvutibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thetitangroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36ce4397288ac33f7f5a66362a60b2b2/8845914943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=odia+bhajan+namita+agrawal+all+songPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010ff8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FF8 5572 bytes
SHA-256: d21ce0f5d7ec6ed52df790b5cdcc17569efb7244c78fe7cebdd2cee4f2379919
font_01_sfnt_off000122ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122CA 10436 bytes
SHA-256: 53ef7b4aab9cff3cee41e87675ed33d46bd73613f31c502fedee64ab8c0d1bfe