Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8003a773de7a0e58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 23:08:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c61cc4aa6dbe34c0288fdec699d3e84e SHA-1: d35ac14e57fc4eb36f456c7b951e835afa4ed7e5 SHA-256: 8003a773de7a0e589482d771a6f6a59ea3931eeb0e935480d679a68713a05199
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

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 http://cgpreceptor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21670569649.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161332e83cea8e---rokamefoxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://total-sport.pl/img/upload/files/pufuropopusomanegoxawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sasolution.kr/userfiles/file/titamawusoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cd48f7e52476bb58136eb4522bbb15d/91803790336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruihuitax.com/files/file/37279212744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travel-door.com/userfiles/file/7673422973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee5972bd6edf0b7dd2bc4a37c1f572bb/1858376409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emanuelmlevin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/rifube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kredoteka.ru/uploads/file/64552570426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gernano.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/587558526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bvbka9h9f0hkus0sc9oeg8asn6/74595503713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1p37cso9b530d0bfnc8v0dqu8e/zonilerorire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tauroconsulting.pl/userfiles/file/60333814456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herningbadintra.dk/app/webroot/upload/files/jifezafokot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lesen-und-schenken.de/userfiles/files/gejilaxarizizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131491365e51---mubakunubifamasak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vrindaindia.com/php/joseph/uploads/file/40375501511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16c082c6e6de5fd04a4551cc20f4b5d1/53316484578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms02bet.net/contents/files/94853448504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gertiesbloomers.com/kousumi/nulook/upload/fckimages/file/taxoxoxujosuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jncs.kr/page_data/file/20210901171340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indirimlipin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/durijewegibuwotos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ncfc.com.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dudizubetelazajasotewes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interference.ajoda.eu/userfiles/files/vipevakez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=ultra+box+pro+apkPDF 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_off0000b30f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB30F 17440 bytes
SHA-256: 0636009dd545b505515b347099bfac58e8f310882db8cec08e994fcaf84666b2
font_01_sfnt_off0000df4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF4E 10092 bytes
SHA-256: 4b1094edba6f4c38eab70161574c55c253751f9ae1648f8934bbb52368c8a8b3
font_02_sfnt_off0000f5bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1