Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8924a5ad1f3b052…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-07-06 17:14:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: df0b4ba8e98f26281cc4e863a8c6e033 SHA-1: 408c2624f178d76e1bf49f1b10b86095b13ce748 SHA-256: f8924a5ad1f3b052c4507b50949a051bafeec2b45b73ef8f598f843d79affb91
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/234689fcce9a228b032e20ff4c8a5b47/52291103624.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://casaperferiesantamariagoretti.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/41248675274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atdawnwelift.com/userfiles/file/17007059909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleiberit.ru/files/file/98792737542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa1b8ff71e7cf27cd87acf13de490a6e/lulutarutesilewowafod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/pelewuwifuxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33q8fprlkadl70dt7gi9eac0vq/gutobevivaruvuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/50101592538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moto-trend.cz/public/files/fck/file/71865703055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/grkeiolo05seph99e8hbt5e638/kupenab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naszymsladem.pl/upload/file/52740503146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cabini.it/userfiles/files/22386036247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3qlndost88unevffkn66c4t9n9/68480714319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/jimuwivokejide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077cb6a14f27---41971323445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://childhood-matters.com/clients/49507/File/zoritikidoxevilemawunan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacda.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v943rkd545mo1ai5meairlj5p3/29791533264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ct36nqrc5ccva1jl93a2gh8k37/67394264179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5c60e44cdf54e55e3ffc69d9c3968b5/3497358045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usmleworkout.com/files/file/kezoxinefomoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loaamtran.vn/files/usersfiles/files/seliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growyourmoney.in/userfiles/files/16471331860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086d45d32775---17264029189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=oysters+in+the+oceanPDF 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_off0000f689.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF689 17424 bytes
SHA-256: 98d54c88769c52ec187a737c579f7a05796e868ed3f37b2fa687b48ce9fdd8e0
font_01_sfnt_off0001241d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1241D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013c34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C34 10420 bytes
SHA-256: f392ed6399f0e78a6cd540a02a0c71025235e0b45770617e1e9ba2a9cfc8a137