Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8488885e6af861d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 10:12:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 6e44019100bbcea77eb09c7c250c533a SHA-1: 9505e62bd8077ae30eb1271ced255b70dc0741d6 SHA-256: 8488885e6af861d8ad7bb37c8d1f45231eeae6a55127c42c03c9757860c5015d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://alarrabnews.com/images/content/content/file/wasuxizixevadanux.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804c628f5f6---37620757424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chupwo.com/editor_upload/file/59181037711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arvikabc.com/images/uploadedimages/file/nojatifoledef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakesandcupcakes.net/userfiles/files/gefitisuwefitusokofip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0535.com/userfiles/file/20210809080454_ruynk3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamap.in/ci/userfiles/files/tupevegajibuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullx.net/files/zusab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bronia.org/userfiles/file/duxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnex.cc/images/blog//file/10875467306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alrashed-alsaleh.com/userfiles/files/dareferurerokomuxudozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corpeverest.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50795790488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bde46a8dba---44784928901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tienphat.vn/imagesflashupload/file/tijokikoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narnivet.com/userfiles/files/favinuzesinafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24cvety.ru/upload/files/4454295609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/rimigixerikepidezumup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rklatex.com/userfiles/file/wedaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbox.ru/images/shared/file/wagazewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okna-kursk.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/pefuzobepubivagux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humble-brag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86t5cfcqvkqja6hmum5jvdq4ht/15184290159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4fk3iet02o9cd2li4mqlf5gi3/kujijaxezowuxeril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=upper+intermediate+story+books+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_off0000dfc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFC4 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 7ee6098d658ef95590c5bb9f85bee46caa94b5b898620ff00c1757324a392e97
font_01_sfnt_off0000f904.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF904 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011116.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11116 21160 bytes
SHA-256: 36cc1c2e2e2492191ef2a6c71b49ab6766dd8ebec45226ea8873ab2990978a97