Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8360a929fde2c461…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-08-14 20:22:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3f95cc49f67d643e0f365db8a05e2e27 SHA-1: 07df9cce97ce8c0206d27c5771db05632c133dec SHA-256: 8360a929fde2c4617a9a75e252961b7ab57282378bbaebc8eb94d24bfe1d99e5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host malicious content or redirect to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+story+of+jetpack+joyride PDF link annotation
    • https://globaltranslation.com/demo/global_translation/beta/userfiles/files/turebon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propiedades.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nupufefazajusezutow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610f075158888---90405484069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mhspartan79.com/clients/9/97/97d0d0788ec4d6723ba7be3cd58769e3/File/dogobepogena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a29188a5fb6---82975472051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608785045a31c---bitaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://likeevent.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/motezapupora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160858a315ca25---44194402634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npxbyy.com/wang3_3_10_27/Upload/Upload/file/20217152359417335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fde89381f96---12073221212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.se/upload/defid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ithaca1961.com/clients/875375/File/63219284332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingyao.com/uploadfiles/files/20210813_150435_9229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olgapopovaphoto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdf89990f64a672b6c5c61f2f5611a01/75709284154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5msmag65mts08oskto3huoigf3/jozirasosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806048f1f55---sabaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4d7f20876c---22156962203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/73722168139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7485e718319114accbfb92173613fe11/37511360405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ev74lvr2vo807uav8jfbqupvjd/mejenipolafetulejiboju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentdorottyapatika.hu/files/13480080632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hda0bj2a6noupvpv7ukv6jga3e/vonurajes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160997c0f6b3cb---53440163695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulaikhatextile.com/userfiles/files/46157106413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160953cd18ca84---33918675777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c46fc3f9d9---34340929498.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_off0000f717.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF717 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010f29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F29 17024 bytes
SHA-256: f194502327196a6dc76c93c7c2d6a8a4d458f938c9b5c5f0c07542b59bae008e
font_02_sfnt_off00013bc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BC7 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 6f440f51bc4c58252203443dd655f235edf9b83f517d3d494e52f261a0642f74

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