Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8fbdf6dc1935317…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 02:51:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 8be983023ff2d0050f973ec2361a7296 SHA-1: 9bcbb3b2edc4e5aa18378d11e17b07ad288e0c14 SHA-256: f8fbdf6dc1935317ac226761239fed4eab6fabe26d85f522271a9e73bd421ea0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with several URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, likely phishing-related. The file's purpose appears to be directing users to external, potentially malicious sites through a collection of embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e94b2673fc4---gasusame.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://wildnaturetravel.com/File/nuboduporoboposamor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blessingsngo.in/userfiles/files/xejokepuzizakimom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://btc-ltd.com/upload/file/62433476011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sitoad.com/bbqjoekey/files/202108090353545131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92c1a2baf9ea5812e73dc9f8567a79c7/raxawovose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df4500466be---88681686434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sabagdasarov.ru/upload/file/97848687510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/jiduxofuzofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shqinze.net/admin/upimg/file///7130633065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntpuvoice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fasavuluni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775b14ec3de---susonobexudilemade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikketiga.com/contents/files/xugegivilolanomipugakijiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dhqfjgts9u4jnchouiu86a5jd7/92218074924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7589e0550---80161410424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hssipm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d82021101f87cc058edb988676a1d150/dunijaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7e4a17bae---78856132801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82e26ptrhnfbrg97fln4qqfdm6/16836206939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dfdtrading.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87346173155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20ae407070f0383a07c7b5bbc142142e/zifevawubowozukexuwujomos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a49b09ff7e---19532884561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f8542d3ad---76466882178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=now+and+days+meaningPDF 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_off00010517.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10517 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 476ab9badd9b3ea3979d949e2577e74ce0dceb454f272bc26001f2884cc202e3
font_01_sfnt_off00011cdd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CDD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000134ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134EF 17376 bytes
SHA-256: 6f32edcb2b7ba71230833fbf2a667a4103167ac5568985a6b71799f2390577c5