Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8297f9687c4bd66a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-21 04:10:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: a254ad0213c4b3f1dd39dcd823b2a1d7 SHA-1: 28212794ba00a12fc2e5c8d278cfbb2585230a45 SHA-256: 8297f9687c4bd66a7315cdd1ab8fd61c88affe1326e4cedb67274854c06361bd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a downloader or phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sinus+cause+dizziness PDF link annotation
    • http://palaciodelosnavas.com/userfiles/file/sosajefot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tivafa.hu/upload/file/80374095103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreanhotpot.com/uploads/files/4799112512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutronicltd.com/userfiles/file/60113806642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e114813e39cea0e43faa382a56c2759/sebate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161490d311053d---12690860505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://virtrade.gr/userfiles_lybo/file/33355967081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dioblina.eu/userfiles/file/963502383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnv-cnc.gr/userfiles/file/37907292519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawweb.info/mycms/admin/userfiles/file/43984463056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novehorizonty.sk/userfiles/file/fisitofagewemekotoxolis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmfegypt.com/userfiles/files/88794881873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sk-uralstroy.ru/uploads/files/73371416804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tvmreza.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fegutufaxezetawajazil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rqconsultores.com/userfiles/file/89957924497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncvpte.in/userfiles/file/72748716824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161371cd96b0f3---27812651570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130d1d9cc1e9---fawijivugajurozevorapux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f0db944ea4---36729952397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivaldiskibus.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210901_EF672D18E9872395.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_off0000e7bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7BD 10236 bytes
SHA-256: 5b401cd3d03c6ed25603ea0aa6cfbd4dd6aa6808673433544318cb96027e2fb8
font_01_sfnt_off0000feca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFECA 17204 bytes
SHA-256: 94051d132f6949572ecd55de17511f590ee5a00baf325728783208e2bf0f19d1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B4D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1