Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8658594e4bf90496…

MALICIOUS

PDF

119.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 00:36:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 6fce8b9dee424c1fd101f8ebdb374f71 SHA-1: a0f5613111d9359c5b9f63f420ee1be9ead29aa2 SHA-256: 8658594e4bf904969b75670f4d8fbd4d3f228e6b8fc1d1cd657daf74aa5a1971
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. 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 consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=robert+walpole+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://banning64reunion.com/clients/a/a7/a71e9339640f4be667ed55590a288245/File/27656764003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://virker-ikke.dk/files/77718959864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actybrain-consult.com/Upload/files/zexovaluzojajuwovop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wonikqnc.com/upload/editor/file/1622241831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://se-ty.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/zanigan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qj2ru17uno07nhitpvi8g3vgfp/3045408715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.winsum.frl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26861446739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baliretreatcenter.com/olabali_ci/media/images/newsfiles/giwagizog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e47dd7ba007e8a8bd30647f7dccd223/23933643613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ad1a7f901---womap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5d94113173---8468535497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brain-sh.tw/upload/file/rijutenibetegaxupepepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/bopebil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/968114033d733e18fc8051b95d9b8c84/jemefofugejubolagas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62ecfc89606fdf99b3faf50fdac657fd/39992956672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/28559871160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maschimaurizio.it/userfiles/files/9120778789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec42ba2e245---88310513293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4f9cafb50---wowebafizim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/397fb8ed8f03102932883831720a343a/pawozatugixabuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmxn.com/userfiles/file/20210614110659_j2g36h.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dk3gu209ehb9fgmfml046jblp4/30430970286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/sebitosojev.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_off00016ee1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16EE1 18724 bytes
SHA-256: 2832b202e8483c309774d95ba982eac4680e3031aa5e857aa77db369c553a1f9
font_01_sfnt_off00019f64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19F64 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001b77b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B77B 10400 bytes
SHA-256: 8855107ea14f4adc946125eaa9ca28191589e3328d5ccf2c436b3d3d455c6cd4