Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8746ee4ee50b0ee9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-10-05 06:00:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 80d29afe90515723eb70574b9e5b0565 SHA-1: 3bdb4dc121f4e44bbe846bd082db10e7c74f38b9 SHA-256: 8746ee4ee50b0ee9ab108262c9898870a0a93b85bfb0537feea922054e899abe
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and link farm nature are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 http://www.taylormadetc.com/siteadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86447401830.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615ab5aec7a36---86399315799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shevtsov-art.com/uploads/files/44550213795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dff97c2df2ae680dd3fbed4fe80c04a7/11664505737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dancleland.com/img/upload/file/regomuxadimulaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timebymtm.com/upload/files/xodoxojomefem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161542d0e5f161---15907615546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agppi99.pretty-match.com/upload/files/lujogasav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mabuksusu.com/contents/files/46519509167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipca.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sulirusevorurusujawibelol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b9c9820f4f---1331586305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odnoklassniki-files.ru/images/uploads/files/direl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chasehr.in/userfiles/file/72666904073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnepropress.net/files/file/29636143258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pessin-location.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jujirewuloniteti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615a668c5eb0d---5519954193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ae17c980f3---29290431175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.parkwaytransplant.com/media_upload/upload/files/tadederugojisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaders-adv.net/userfiles/file/73687700808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatdangcap.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/97053405097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wcsps.com.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/subonijilojun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seeandhearbetter.ie/img/shop/contents/redegib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=anthe+2017+sample+paper+answer+keyPDF 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_off0000e435.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE435 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC47 23564 bytes
SHA-256: 17016710db0896182859ef2b12e86fe6dbfc67a68b1531bb594f5e40bc68dced
font_02_sfnt_off00013909.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13909 10924 bytes
SHA-256: e3342db9344396057cffd490784f271116d0617c135e841abbbda3af4ca47777

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