Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8617e5b8954440de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-08-08 13:21:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 105ee114c3f7c278e2dcb6bbf9625a6b SHA-1: dd469cd730c4190d5d47bc4cd7573b5f3b81d351 SHA-256: 8617e5b8954440de5667fce9cebae7d85ccf3c2b4b01e076c4b0905faa41100b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest an attempt to distribute malware, potentially via a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/915a0b59945a1840a238eaa1c5279a43/wokadivarupofojufik.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e9d2b7caae---53385176541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3074c695bb---70301716895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotaquangninh.org/data/dulieu/files/92524846999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizbecho.com/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/87033900244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdcaee3ec5c1f8138ed6c24be90f841f/68488520198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phongkhamducphuc.net/images/files/56629672126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hytechcommunications.com/userfiles/file/95043751384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebellingerfamily.com/clients/0/05/05034faaa501c69409a7459485cba135/File/xinojepasaxinuditonobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c48e468a2b6---wifapojijedux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrspk.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38809683789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/913bc4c8a200dbc65d4b0858562808f1/folizubifawajun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4bf107c253---luforigetinatoboben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitnessklub-impuls.pl/uploads/assets/file/muvedobajularebulivan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/geximesotopijebekelinexub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6d37efcb258335718d7dc27ae799f5b/tipajisilodemuzupofibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc48f86b3e---pikenakisejudip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/34035507403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eventaipei.com/upload/files/51305746367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innova-perila.ru/upload/files/ledenufiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e531005889ffb92b192e2181bcbe6d68/pezuxaxusazizuwozomaxujux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midlandhigh65.com/clients/6/68/682e31fde28f8c6bff7ebba57332ef5f/File/mirozexegopidenezafasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://recapress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19291911989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kevinmcallisterlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/44304711038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+letter+of+admissionPDF 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_off0000fbb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBB3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000113ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113CA 10612 bytes
SHA-256: ce2ea99603097f5d15aa269eeac90a6dee1701eb15873ae821873ca844fa3102
font_02_sfnt_off00012bda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BDA 17068 bytes
SHA-256: fb95d4a89f6f7553ed3ee3aed9a52cf7c9d1abfb58fc3b6353180299cffaf52d