Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8019ff941e63a23a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-08-30 15:17:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 88b739014528b16e58b39d4e70889dbd SHA-1: 4941e06116ed908700591c33fefe8636a1f4ae54 SHA-256: 8019ff941e63a23a060e7056776705b99f48bab19ed5572e55e86441449fbef4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains a significant number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs suggest an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://antitumor.org/filespath/files/20210815034354.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://iwilldoit.ru/uploads/files/files/9106481279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phillismaniglia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6700e4d6b00147d13a972daa20b4fbc0/83675014955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff5bb22b36c4965bfabc7bd6022d5e71/88352510460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riggi.ru/userfiles/file/25291108568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be610523b20---61013377352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestsearch.in/admin/uploads/file/fekobuxojegorironejamavaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e514751c6---pitumefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kashima.cc/userfiles/file/tenod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9p7hgqppqrmf74sfklssl3re6s/28122491292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/zoxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/33131204062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aroma-es.red/yamituki-n/uploads/files/8606383633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zajazd-broadway.pl/galeria/file/13272002995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3tg78chm93v2pumjeevr6aet2/jodediganagomivija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariailmarzocco.it/userfiles/files/9443729943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ec12h3s1ofg8p0k7cqbbs6akd/wibodukafuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4x4autok.hu/userfiles/files/tefawovawuviruwigogep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daismene.it/file/61314714322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gulfcoolcontracting.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/mejixonudakired.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sse2qa4taf3ce4nqos4apoltgo/10371411437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/094f30b98f8d82275958377e322cc6b5/kavorumoribifepomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=ringing+circuit+in+pdcPDF 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_off0000dc89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC89 10208 bytes
SHA-256: 4bc2cc8c73c397c0ad66d1f030accd5f075b1d0cdc69a90728bd16926ada7999
font_01_sfnt_off0000f348.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF348 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010b5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B5A 19820 bytes
SHA-256: e37e2aeefb1e44244e6e5bc39843a1dab3d69636441412deafd7dbe0cb37dd94