Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8fd0a6de29a1d8a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

149.8 KB Created: 2021-07-29 19:34:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 7dfb01c1408eb6d7e9c09e407751abe2 SHA-1: 7540c920ad259e3b77336ab612e9717415058842 SHA-256: c8fd0a6de29a1d8af4e406360b74a24da98d498e4061a8c93ff0f3f3a42aa2f5
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, identified as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body is unreadable binary data, but the heuristics and URLs are sufficient to infer the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9488

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.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac9d7cba314---59521936694.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.vbclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe4a2300e2d654ff91098220207dbe89/25620707329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d9fa87a9be---74939037198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb979c08d58a55d67e5a3425837f0c40/fajenalilusawigaxumipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-astar.com/UserFiles/files/31406878434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db9c292720---85247170589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/98292738571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/47318711972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/prlj9q3fa61q7ho7qli7ppkil1/lonurizexitasole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitaloffice.pl/fotki/file/wenimexasaxozesurabugubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pablohernandes.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/836dbb3b83d4a0327fccfce6e0994cc1/4842908119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.com/images/uploads/files/77232811162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de11eb8971---tunogovikonadaran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/67130464109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyotiacademicpress.org/uploads/file/35798833092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assushop.com/userfiles/assushop.com/file/4678831073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qpvfqke4k2cfcnahfsut9er473/wonaravomutuxefubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2-view.org/home/view/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuwanuvekatuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manleyboone.com/clients/3/3d/3dd19be848c73b0ce3a0430f7fd535f3/File/wasodekolitugup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9b95024ab6---99762448670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atl-50.com/files/file/93522868914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e75d57a53ee36a4395a14b95178f79a2/74463805176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfaaf65d2cd---6556208982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc63d6ac159---24098154720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=pink+floyd+dark+side+of+the+moon+album+coverPDF 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_off0001e341.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E341 20056 bytes
SHA-256: 30208027c7eb7af996f1ede80994953b648e27891e3c4dc5db5b69149a87360c
font_01_sfnt_off000215f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x215F7 11256 bytes
SHA-256: 701ebcdedfd80564ff86318962f9c8c8dcd1bf791f33d8e12293d713440ba96d
font_02_sfnt_off00023034.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x23034 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1