Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8746daa3f4e980ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 10:28:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: c8d9733e9956a8fddd9a00e169be4780 SHA-1: b03ce2a164c24ed3a6d3e5443f44a5fdab47e7e9 SHA-256: 8746daa3f4e980ec93bae6f1c24596ac05a947e4853c201d449004f6beeaf324
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=equation+of+the+parabola+with+vertex+and+focus PDF link annotation
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9b9beb1d71---84482606496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zlato-invest.cz/upload/files/49699051975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fcda130f2cbbec92cf9010237fca7f5/77887314885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iec02jot2g0t1ha5qus4ce7i9m/70123241596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105241538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c005747e58d---xumopemubusaxupodunujulok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19884bd48ca97ecd24a443406c8d3596/zopaluzukuviposujipep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc83821b96cbe995fe36e5eaf89993d6/kuwasurapamusojirudon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edarky.net/data/file/doloridinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbmuuvi1k8gpbsikahup9qkbo9/juniwibijubakawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c11d3b0cc7403c60a3bd99695ad36843/pidetoronipogoruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/zunosanenok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantex.org/tantex/tantexuserfiles/file/jorepalagaketuxunisikupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giasusinhvien.net/upload/files/12948842297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msiutilities.biz/documents/wodira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160893441ba6d1---27756669031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d120c8c05---vabipamikagozuparuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maility.pl_adresuserfiles/file/fesofote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a45718744b---xegakuwaberasunurorubul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/pipavalukosasavuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dush-kz.ru/uploads/fck/file/zomusixazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1e02f8c50aa55945fb75ccd002e97c7/39774326033.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_off0000c99e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC99E 16936 bytes
SHA-256: 76e4c432ec5ef94dca0f68c013318d3d13f0f7f9a1e6c7cd6846ebee5699a253
font_01_sfnt_off0000f643.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF643 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010e5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E5A 11340 bytes
SHA-256: 46e72c336dcd7b71757279f69a7015bf0ad78747b4d0cc9605fcae15e7ae14e7