Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8755e4aef35a3f03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-09-13 10:31:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ac081ada2ca6ae25390878a1f4c4729e SHA-1: 3071f1ead7b057d37cb6d457066afda55bd55bc4 SHA-256: 8755e4aef35a3f03d083386a625afa73cb8e58a52a732c70dba5685ee45baf36
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://matfplayer.com/calisma2/files/uploads/64856310636.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wohingltd.com/userfiles/44772718618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syekp.gr/sites/default/files/file/zatibefigumaboroxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://incomsistema.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xitodabove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamax-moto.cz/data/dokumenty/68298108585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srtprogetti.eu/userfiles/files/bujusan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://komunalno.vrgorac.hr/files/51234260293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://usgcambodia.com/userfiles/file/37388033006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylphs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vosowumufomorokabipep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangcaowebsitecomvn.xemlaco.com/uploads/files/rovifelosipufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e78fa0d3ff---vokinal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77785c3dd14e6fd14a8c227e7723c2f8/52044945212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/roripi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okna-kursk.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/zimik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomalpocher.it/userfiles/files/wogubupelaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dokumsuzgec.com/userfiles/files/96648424649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/024710a323ee90a62cb116680cdcfeb3/65091973725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tort-art.ru/userfiles/file/nubomipasokomilov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mpksieradz.pl/upload/file/46366989043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prochem.vn/images/uploads/files/51363697413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f7f9011daf---87138839885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4949cqmkqlkh6aobpag7m8n79r/baginiromunolovutojasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullhousetourism.com/UploadFiles/file/20210912042249134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161360fafd026b---nanujibabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=robux+free+promo+codes+2021PDF 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_off0000be94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE94 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6AB 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 25ff300e9b67796df27a77735ea439f6b9cd1746ac3b7027041f3b31da711840
font_02_sfnt_off0000efff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFFF 17076 bytes
SHA-256: a40bf30560cc533c9be46141bc519b81eb1e42acb74d92c7105ad621255f26bd