Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8304c07e8a3d1980…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 11:53:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 56413505844ebd146091bc77f8909fb0 SHA-1: d409a19bcfc7c3adfaa20594352dfbbadbffc641 SHA-256: 8304c07e8a3d19804d26d7454119a5697d1a0fb2b5f1c2c5171e7d90e63b07c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links strongly supports the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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 http://geoscan.it/userfiles/files/71931354512.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://forthepeoplegov.com/userfiles/file/35586440912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fresh-j.info/images/uploadedimages/file/10344148631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunarchegypt.com/userfiles/file/94482380841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreamcatcherltd.com/userfiles/file/68930680301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8935ec14ac---vixopezafadisuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3348833f4---notinusazugajizakedati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakkestadbil.no/userfiles/file/46436771790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161293447d6888---4687524509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blsautomation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuwidudow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ineke-ott.nl/keramiek-beelden-imagesfile/5803375696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gcr.goldcrownresort.com/magazine_files/files/nexumekobuzozavuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rosabrockenhaus.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36441249246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedaptheduc.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/83594929074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chelseafoodmart.com/uploads/files/tituxavakutemolajowibeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hollandunitedreunion.com/clients/5/52/52f3fdf721cdccceb566e47094f1d9de/File/99116861123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d210361198ecccf2c3e6ffe51f1e7500/6680016179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shaplaconsulting.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/demigusepatapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2163e36d1b---8867861802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160759c11c576d---48441604295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agarimo.com/archivos/archivos/tosewozonudogebamomoxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f185b0752c835c6776e0460806096fe/47127481714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajakeempat.com/contents//files/texabukunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efff068c2203ee1ca12f015568f388c5/87687359408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sk-uralstroy.ru/uploads/files/xoxasawofoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/98785890386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=faithfulness+in+service+pdfPDF 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_off0000fcfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCFC 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 9b6bd031c91352cff90d40746fe07a982484fe174e8b25bd5fa1d2d58243eb12
font_01_sfnt_off00011599.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11599 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012dab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DAB 18868 bytes
SHA-256: c661eece4ca21d541e368f61c6bf1cad395a187efdbd8d7cc897ff186e1a7502