Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8a893d418d900e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-07-02 03:47:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 68c5f71d364e85bb23dcc0a510724809 SHA-1: 7671dac4648f23a943fd6076421a367b359e9ea8 SHA-256: f8a893d418d900e7286c223e5e3203648a1022494d2c1d0c4b62aef66165ac1a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to WordPress installations that appear to be compromised, serving as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b0a1968cd3---poduzorebuwaxakud.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987fdd34b8f---kevuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fce997a579---38175967794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/usboqimcn9q10kqusfsabvnhuc/51541380784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saito-ken.jp/userdata/file/53851085722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c29baa91461---2632509280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d356e1e81d2---89252513529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7c9123e6b8---gikewadedurojofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d987a7a4ef2---62026653062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f7u3dlk2dc2lq8o7rl88djbl3/6980071195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fd4d89439f8a76bd3abc0c57c28cacb/96177383755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tufe0rldpsc6kj18ir420th28o/delagifogokoseseforodadaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mytmbc.org/fckimage/file/gumutozam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7mks1l1ql68i77o03lrbm5hqo6/61395812819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dijitalsanat.link/upload/files/mopotenejesususip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtsport.com/pliki/13403904600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atamergranit.com/userfiles/file/30181767449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d83e2f42bd5---zemomujas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aluminiosarla.com/userfiles_arla/files/19845126545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9fafb17d9f---74371521577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab1879978ef96d70363cd72db1348bdf/83033460421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/vakiwozujevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acccca412da---24254101447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c994b322e3c---lizopodavadomubinuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=spoken+poetry+that+describe+the+proper+usage+of+tools+and+materialsPDF 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_off0000f556.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF556 11588 bytes
SHA-256: 9fee8b1df1a17981d67aee634d1313a664ade4b6fb2dd02fa14fd7b34fd51742
font_01_sfnt_off00011042.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11042 17324 bytes
SHA-256: c270462ccc410236804b0dbe5dbe475fe84c74d16153e752c2a5928747b9844f
font_02_sfnt_off00013d58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D58 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1