Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8866bde75d9edbf3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-07-13 13:50:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: fe6c6682313d9b599f992e19652395bc SHA-1: 205308d370f0e98e6ac2a73e43b7029a7f795c11 SHA-256: 8866bde75d9edbf33ebbff2126491155d9f9fc92aeb2c6c849b8b470be990bcc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, 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. The file's structure and numerous external links align with techniques used to obscure the ultimate destination and evade initial detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=zuo+tradition+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/40084203355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fhs76reunion.com/clients/0/00/009202203981f132fd14d012a57c0fe5/File/wimazakokutuzeropora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b65319ac05dce6b88f7caf94e53adab3/kizesotavokirabaxeminofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arablift.net/userfiles/file/44752527827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altiro.nl/home/tjerk/file/venilutop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eb5d2d5354---9848602643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00ed41edc20117a3be0a631aa5a14fe6/79829313520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellina.pl/userfiles/file/kezefuwajowez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luatsutiengtrung.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/togef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hulstcustoms.ru/uploads/files/27732968882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbcf95c37e22d7c52797db4c69dd6667/mikovozurafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6e9dde38ee5658dc9e29877e14e56f6/kufulab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assushop.com/userfiles/assushop.com/file/pejevusefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27509a5c904bfd60254faf9c8c13852d/dureri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nothingbutsafetyglasses.com/userfiles/file/rekoduwububagerozis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travellifeafrica.com/ci/userfiles/files/48571711895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c5a5a67cb5bd09cd7c0aa1da6315281/xoponelelosujaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b05bb992ce---1247753836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/nevikalinumitojag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b85d8cb1d---nogizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0d2a25882---9344506811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/tefaravano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roofmed.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b86aa4a6802---66616278531.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_off0000ed1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED1F 10208 bytes
SHA-256: a74d045642f52d2db161b2d78a3b7c4224a00a21cbb9fd32f237f2255cf50da6
font_01_sfnt_off00010417.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10417 17292 bytes
SHA-256: 4b7561ad0993b07b2b1629b4a62f5e4da5e5ee22910818eaf4ac7ac4647b7262
font_02_sfnt_off0001313f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1313F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1