Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8d3ccc77502ed74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.2 KB Created: 2021-07-08 10:58:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 782ffbb54cd2ca70baa7304b0d7f73e3 SHA-1: 6f7da15bd5e161c596b69f12c2935ec9440eba8a SHA-256: d8d3ccc77502ed740cd20508f76add1a23b9867b6dd62f4d82f6e2cd7f19dbeb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous external URIs and compromised CMS upload links suggests an attempt to leverage these sites for further redirection or payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://doks-films.com/pcms/content/file/83142048404.pdf
    • http://kameleonhastanc.hu/files/file/46293031313.pdf
    • http://uctodane.cz/UserFiles/File/28048195148.pdf
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k3cg63911dm03b71aq652gq3vd/81606971803.pdf
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160823d5b785d6---25989488195.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd8e98f0a91---54386920943.pdf
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f87227fef8---remipunetunixizuvetunepoj.pdf
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c40e8947a7d---luwoxepikelunujedi.pdf
    • http://carefirstwalkathon.com/clients/8/89/89514deb4c0e8807eb046cac28c4977f/File/32255734976.pdf
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/30045896667.pdf
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c24385ead17e174640bcc423ed0616a2/99679213684.pdf
    • http://smflow.in/admin/uploads/file/panudesapube.pdf
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f1abd0ca42aaceaf20e6d48fabcba43/bikibox.pdf
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8778af18dd---72253915543.pdf
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cef35768e78---ludupajij.pdf
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ea1b465efe---2671113234.pdf
    • https://bobecoingatlan.com/uploads/editor/file/78221336244.pdf
    • http://charugarware.com/DEVELOPMENT/charu_garware/uploaded/userfiles/file/gujotuxutedes.pdf
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160960610316d8---37479855391.pdf
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6bd03a75ac---18811930926.pdf
    • https://dixietemporarystorage.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7832bafe0c28a8f34bc66f17bbbd8760/revibisutanetiwexu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=the+wise+old+woman+story+pdf
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
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64cff04b75875357965e28e85643d9914f72fc27945fbdd0b9af97c8a98b9962
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x147B0 24508 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec2c.bin
cecf670f0d10ddb9e6f7fac3e6233cac3d070b0407ac64f280c6455e4cb87c4c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC2C 10924 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010564.bin
d21e5a19fa00777add25d9b9d6168bb237e000cc5ebb83e6d1a4e23af3ddeb5c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10564 16304 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012f9f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F9F 16792 bytes