Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8232870532b718fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 22:03:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 7baefc4981ab66fab8d0ec8345093f1b SHA-1: 6470a643b1e968d7287fc8038d1942f8431da1c9 SHA-256: 8232870532b718fd2deee13f9cb84f17c967f92ac836b50e22324c8f9b5efab7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting it's part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it may attempt to exploit PDF vulnerabilities or redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e2e4e4dfa2c2e06a7de3575e7f6abb8/93111907292.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/vubonuvumebaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehigh86.com/clients/13680/File/57478203299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iqmuseum.mn/uploads/files/nepeleserabazozunema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duszek-lasu.pl/userfiles/file/janusovetedenipaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alnahamgroup.com/userfiles/file/gosuzejugumeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kl3ukks8h37h3at9d96iunbr79/zolegapadisujaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akrmedia.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55832506392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b98381f6e752f420425cc4f37d734533/66867328526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/99438856107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/86189756762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenstarhotel.vn/images/uploads/files/19973619317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dunajecbiala.pl/upload/File/wusekivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaitosushisb.com/uploads/files/64367618969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/98943309465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrspk.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pozonokedikojakazomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.treehousecare.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c789ea695f---gajitezidawukeximob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://progin.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/relexovafixabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kitapkapla.com/upload/ckfinder/files/7570500701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f8b07a6eb7---5697378113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://darshanam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wewoladekaxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mt-creativestudio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wosepikilomujufexujubok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermiradiatoriai.lt/images/files/24941668078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfbi.ru/content/file/zadugefitilipejebasovat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=microprocessor+and+microcontroller+pdf+for+csePDF 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_off0000dc8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC8A 19112 bytes
SHA-256: b90e3e4bd0a18ae4330f079d94b5fb28e96a4e8ecabdaf52035e039bbb423d44
font_01_sfnt_off00010e3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E3E 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 0457174e81cbcdbee3a8e1db0da1676e6e3d557165ac27d55db876b8c0f7f2bd
font_02_sfnt_off00012703.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12703 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1