Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 808e8a2e98b154bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-16 05:55:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 2dad319fe539109819b39651dec97dc0 SHA-1: 6b0e5806ae26f4dae58c6a5cdba541b7e81680b1 SHA-256: 808e8a2e98b154bbdaeda237e088a3591848c8edd6351c4bd000e2f139df52f1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to external PDFs hosted on compromised or disposable domains, characteristic of a link farm used to obscure malicious destinations or distribute further payloads. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior suggest it's part of a phishing or malware distribution chain.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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 https://excore.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83378902850.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://camonetinternational.com/files/file/5431811266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://storemisr.com/uploads/files/wafufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pottoka.info/files/galeria/files/dikosun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j2d9nmhae9evqmop15f2kfn135/47164092410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e48c2b40a5---vawofozexedatesumumofopol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samtle.net/ckupload/files/mesowukopelumixuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsmpublicschool.org/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/88553250658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ffarchitettura.it/userfiles/files/86101739661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dioblina.eu/userfiles/file/pofolumigebejava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jurad.eu/files/file/14176038247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imcborivali.org/userfiles/file/mosigekanoful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarexperten.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/27289093534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/67842225263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patronusalapitvany.hu/public_html/upload/sonako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zilalcooling.com/other_files/File/67925705093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangladeshceramicsociety.com/uploads/editor/files/85405344836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c94ae04977---sibalox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9i1b14lwsg1seumdzsx.com/upload/fckeditor/file/fusede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161322ee9a60b2---kujezoluwurimex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3kdto4f0v67n6p44rkhtg7fqoq/ropepufoginodavarukizono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hai-bi.com/uploads/files/202109091557559170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auksozvynas.lt/userfiles/file/womozabelomipos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://33mobility.net/uploads/files/zamukij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyswimpool.com/userfiles/pufewuvoveratikawuzadevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speakingparrot.com/upload/ckfinder/files/73839188631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfumes.dropship-tracking.com/userfiles/files/zopuwumujuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=where+to+download+gba+games+for+androidPDF 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_off0000e4ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD04 11020 bytes
SHA-256: ebb6f1854e375e4dbd25d9d6ab350ba75037955dbf96b459e0153dae8744dad6
font_02_sfnt_off00011646.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11646 18520 bytes
SHA-256: ad40d214862d3c6db818a9223593384c28ed85dc72cbc6cd7d18f44e1c1a0b90