Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8ce59f3acdefe9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 03:08:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: ef6d0b8da24e06e8efa1e73928eb3951 SHA-1: 4850ef3c9cb1d5f695704ffa083ab220b04c09cf SHA-256: d8ce59f3acdefe9b3f262b7c8bd3869263409a7f0179ec6f6b3b3718a0b1b517
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, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure or a downloader.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609debf795d1b---wifefovokibetadun.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.rodnolespropertymanagement.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/70047214993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcutech.net/upload/2021/08/file/16291382351004705955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fe04f5cfa37ddc2787bbcaf1489f1ee/lukexobafofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0b70c3b92c---mepapuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blsautomation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37036157576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsarvn.com/media/ftp/file/fanasuzimetib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emke.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49587805728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfc85360b8885db0659c52d496a491a5/22663677983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd9c236cfd5bf7da3d8228ff69f1107e/pibixusavejatugeseva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--p3t29jo1ed4o4xw.tw/upload/files/55546751087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a67583b81cf---nibiputatakudifemuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mywayrtk.info/userfiles/file/37242603871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d8891aef4---82516357618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prieteniitehnicii.ro/documente/file/24383209777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd5d24sm4rquj69stebqi2rf12/gobunavejarebuxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gonouvellezelande.com/files/30955258600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suavitinhtannha.net/upload/files/33750893672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recviem.ru/img/upload/15815592682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://impactpluslearning.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pozilokitumikosefej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benevolo.it/userfiles/files/34725253169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topjobsnepal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44206297029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tgtech-auto.com/userfiles/file/tisolozikoxob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=22+livros+de+literatura+infantil+para+baixar+em+pdfPDF 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_off0000c29d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC29D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dab4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAB4 11092 bytes
SHA-256: 7a46aed48660799ac1aa63780eedb74b41cfb4afbbb73ef7150e85604bed486f
font_02_sfnt_off0000f45e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF45E 19216 bytes
SHA-256: 2a6a5453f5eb21a1f64c496bf0997fba38710e754e225c5b2215c5db8668e8d9

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