Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8038fe374a77cc7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-08-28 02:52:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 10bf86a95d558ae58d8362af51e7dd1f SHA-1: 1d50a0cd6178482ebb40047c5bcbbc831e0bd954 SHA-256: d8038fe374a77cc7c4adc886d3efa887979118cee0abb1f70b7be0511e33d141
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites utilizing the Formcraft plugin for file uploads. This suggests the PDF is designed to lure users to these compromised hosts, likely for further exploitation or phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae9a37f40a1---22293347353.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://laihoawedding.com/app/webroot/upload/files/79780349673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fba01667b9d---28969251666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaronandanthony.com/userfiles/files/48195226777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.com/contents//files/12215216839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghioroiu.ro/sites/default/files/file/31393842772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clifestyle.net/uploades/userfiles/file/53474172942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844d5ce08a4---56391812011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniroll.pl/user_images/file/pulimupip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ativn.com/upload/file/78768973954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heyumpnd.com/userfiles/file///zuxufamegiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusancard.com/userData/board/file/lisutasujekigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullx.net/files/dabavisawutejuxivegiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b9ee339d01---28528716600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruihuitax.com/files/file/mubom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huthamcauquanggiap.com/upload/files/81204801239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/66413121661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/017bb3337e0dbb8eb1b4be00c3ec28d8/ditumonolevariku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drticket.ir/basefile/drtiketcom/files/67552213059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160963b3bc317d---55249440004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d38b117edf---41066598483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/nugavilaxojirakodeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078d20d64670---dejavag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiga.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fiponikunakosodil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=revelation+letters+to+the+churchesPDF 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_off0000ba7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA7E 10540 bytes
SHA-256: adfd4f08b5e51aee29976842203b1468ce03a8564ad2d9c5347564c26d44d14e
font_01_sfnt_off0000d27d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD27D 16672 bytes
SHA-256: ec4465a384e7ff89343bc3d4cc10527d29d34604df79af42c428a3ab41d39fa8
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD44 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1