Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8216403d032a66f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-21 08:48:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: dbb1fa536bcf8b5c80075213fd6b9cf8 SHA-1: e2b457728b7c3abc229d192c8787db7fed7c5287 SHA-256: 8216403d032a66f906bbc8a669dce8ae53911437d75596da26527d36b983ac77
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=do+i+have+a+qr+scanner+on+my+phone PDF link annotation
    • https://viettincapital.vn/upload/files/zapewizisasofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/34891544851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mauthietkedep.info/upload/files/maniliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaodontuonglai.vn/uploads/ck_upload/files/sazasabuwefukusupazere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-0411.com/userfiles/file/20210912154622_b3hpt8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161317f59d7966---43950666143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thecargonepal.com/userfiles/file/kavemekapidibok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bzws.zhanyougame.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10464277018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613453e24fc94---97955550836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bordahusfeldolgozo.hu/editor_up/10042055350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhongjiukeji.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-5/20210905161258304219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoncmswebsitebeheer.nl/files/editor/file/jemavawukavisesuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mabo-meccanica.eu/userfiles/files/jinadezadugusatovenoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primariasantana.ro/uploads/file/fomutenuwitemum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sushixusa.com/userfiles/files/gelafadideduletogemorumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bc6e92e4b020437c9d78c16fe175315/jawazewalis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hbtsap.com/Upfiles/news/file///bidiriliso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmclimatizacionhvac.cl/images/subidas/file/nugotevalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suksesunited.com/contents/files/43435899662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://togclick.com/media/userFckfiles/file/35197020219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de85e771458029b18703e8a1a4bbfd6c/17472948662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitjaya.com/contents/files/vowivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136b3583dfef---wanav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.restaurant-latableedevercel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kizilida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketoanantamhcm.com/uploads/files/35674324017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e28d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE28D 17568 bytes
SHA-256: 577ae8ed4b503aa0023b1d1494601c14715c57a9f415b4b6f4e1f3e04349d2dc
font_01_sfnt_off0001101c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1101C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012833.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12833 10820 bytes
SHA-256: c32c535bc6f83295f3ae009470a53f6047ab6f4a7bbdcb090d1eefabc99a1e63