Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8779c7cff57312c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 17:03:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f91994cced5ade94bf52e3a8f6896f85 SHA-1: daba8f870136b7025f40fc870f6f332ac1e37b72 SHA-256: e8779c7cff57312c153dc97d086977af8f6601ae73b813812999148d0a00e30a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm or redirection strategy. ClamAV and ML classifiers flagged this PDF as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The presence of links to compromised CMS upload storage suggests an attempt to host or distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/536deba038cc2b99310feb36a9e0d053/63759207905.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.dawnrotaryclub.tw/UserFiles/files/20252627777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/138591729860f3dcf4d90a4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087850d8cda1---filulilis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efbdb78791ac77b1b7919a6be4a9ec9f/salokamikesuwivare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cevhertemizlik.com/userfiles/files/lomipexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35cih42o036b7bjs561lqqpiq1/sikixubozoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c7b0923b4---jijezaririresidukonad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/152d4019e3128bf4f1b5dd95e27acd15/66746933817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepnguyentran.vn/media/ftp/file/58600987216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb1669f18f---63381547661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14065500c6985d45cecb0c64b9bca670/44744257580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef306bc1063370419d690a2d74b46569/95648131658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisetourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210718_A81B851B00707551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kme.pl/global/app/webroot/uploads/file/16269018148719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naitikfashions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/demug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608433818fbe0---gumezigidijadidarub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c689d787d7957d7e26a186587749730b/61839306179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b2f252abe---roposurabafivawegijozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arabstina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuwudanijidegijepuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thinkglobalcompliance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54476934535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc28a053d53---48493486229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6fdd1a3ac4---jiwakotateborunukivama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jlg8bf0a2fssk7t3454i20isr3/pupoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=conflict+resolution+lessons+for+elementary+studentsPDF 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_off0000ddbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDBD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5D4 10884 bytes
SHA-256: 4379e1d531ae315b106ed4462e01d6bf249355daf21617df00a4f43d17e2c7c7
font_02_sfnt_off00010f10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F10 15924 bytes
SHA-256: 713b34cd52fb27353267e829aa5d88f90514a02c3583cc786c639b797befdbe4