Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8ea972d322e1253…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-07-20 11:35:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4ae4dfc63f4cb9ff4cc47be1070b0a30 SHA-1: 3cee3ac29bb8968fb3f1e7a16ca7028e2373087c SHA-256: d8ea972d322e1253917ff9b4423c77012d8429314210756c9e674928450ec8da
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure indicate a likely spearphishing attachment used to redirect victims to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed121e6efd8---28815590108.pdf
    • https://pypconsultores.mx/userfiles/file/1744117271.pdf
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0639a330d34d938b6fab29174cb0e6a6/vorurenivajufazonadaj.pdf
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e317459f43b5b8ece09b5af8be7bee3a/58006203478.pdf
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc2ob36us8un82sr72dr2cu7i7/jozirikavojepix.pdf
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af3a2710b7fcbf50fd98956caae2ba82/56701018006.pdf
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609207bc6e424---bofixefadukoto.pdf
    • https://cuisinescartier.ca/upload/editor/file/voxevuwali.pdf
    • http://forumts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14181786899.pdf
    • https://arrayamed.com/userfiles/file/pesidipa.pdf
    • https://alperbehang.nl/userfiles/file/fogogol.pdf
    • http://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210611135305187.pdf
    • http://studiotecnicofrisoli.com/userfiles/files/xemujigiserigixupugidudat.pdf
    • http://cafegreenwichvillage.com/uploads/files/vatowilirukabeviwemenif.pdf
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3182c739fb406b3007acdcb8c56bf0f/rasud.pdf
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/74876142047.pdf
    • https://acrgroup.nl/userfiles/file/vabakutuweliko.pdf
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26432e30cb9c60dfb01b934848f5fbb2/vemadolanirofubo.pdf
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b00025d9c9---34922883173.pdf
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a9f1e0de14---belupavamex.pdf
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9279cm786mspm1qm2e4vfel13/kebawoxixaj.pdf
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d226874d1---porofewewa.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+use+elytra+wings+in+minecraft
    • 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_off0000e51a.bin
2eff31d7b6e79b38ffc477b5b43c13c1880fca9bce29c71203f675108808b800
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE51A 10968 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fea5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEA5 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000116b7.bin
be00d68c10acd57594d0b53b19dfb7590b13e59d6db164163fa7a3e6fdc9596b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116B7 17088 bytes