Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8f5529b7e139a50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-07-02 23:28:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 68ea1824fdcf956b00371a0e358200aa SHA-1: c832663f892b3809681e4903b28c5c851c3f9c5c SHA-256: c8f5529b7e139a50516669517a201b1c0854b67dc7b0d0f932a08cc43736f014
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a likely attempt to redirect users to external malicious sites, potentially for malware download or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18debb68399040182f7cad9282c80e64/21352468227.pdf
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae4e42d39ee---17787030025.pdf
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee3bfbdb4c0766724551cc29c33af602/miwebupi.pdf
    • https://sitpchemcieszyn.pl/_sitpchem/file/7034579918.pdf
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5d836erm58u7dfbmifno9laa4/pipej.pdf
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa077d320db---zinadedelatalidexagajal.pdf
    • https://condominiovillage.com/userfiles/file/tateroxubune.pdf
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l3h8krksv6v0tpj3t36v8pul61/16716807011.pdf
    • http://cayxaotamphan.net/userfiles/image/file/nuzeburamijodipo.pdf
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/faziluxofuro.pdf
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e474cfc7ae122a03a44c85f7a685fc59/53720613004.pdf
    • https://aterhesseg.com/up_image/file/87078716707.pdf
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-6/file/70997772839.pdf
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1b64e501b8---80577010433.pdf
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/33907809017.pdf
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8lvq6el9hq9h8i1tpbdpl0brmq/xavijerobugarivolijap.pdf
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8dd54eab99---72504817495.pdf
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a99rmi2mo6tkg7l3umh8pgjd32/zinokegelo.pdf
    • http://cuacuondaiphuc.com/upload/files/mematixopegota.pdf
    • https://info-jimukyoku.jp/lot/upload/files/simejasipi.pdf
    • http://mygotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210625_EADB5478FB503525.pdf
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84hn4sgrbbjb1mlkudgq62jt61/48036872970.pdf
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34a89f7bd30e9edf6aa146a2275de54a/55471995699.pdf
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddbd5ecfacad18b3ccb2d49c85de8665/74613443839.pdf
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa06604562---857195350.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=release+price+of+ps5
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fea4.bin
ce328c88de8cae8caf61dad2503201a50f9ed45007f51785ead33c10a37ee9ce
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEA4 10452 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011685.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11685 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012e97.bin
d5ab17346eb4324d5417783aa99df20ae5c193f93ceb727ab47014e619388348
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E97 19312 bytes