Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8896575de837b840…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.4 KB Created: 2021-09-19 04:27:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e345f4696af28367f558dca67cecd6fa SHA-1: ac7f7d78e696b855512ca029e67b21917be2451c SHA-256: 8896575de837b840968ebd85373899ababf7c6452a544906bf45b400528692e8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://autoprofi.ua/userfiles/file/43321137668.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xulobovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faradbox.pl/files/file/3891572306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbdc.co/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55402628591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kcde.kr/userfiles/file/1053818935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haithuanphat.com/uploads/files/81197189925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaronandanthony.com/userfiles/files/81617632506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahjygjg.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-8/20210908042914763264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esperanzadeavila.com/fotos/file/40438605750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c98a49390342534503fc649f6583ceb7/76864944270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/47614017444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dailyiat.com/html_upload/file/73274687087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vijyaiprismcrm.com/userfiles/files/tilolojolavabemojuziwinak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linza-market.ru/upload/files/nolomabes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.la-providence-ehpad.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80400368278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealhca.com/admin/images/file/mazesez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161384ec912128---39476394512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blueleaves.ru/userfiles/file/dodezozepizenofegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tolgyesvolgy.hu/userfiles/file/55788225724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/45220946703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leasebridge.com/CKUPimg/files/xijimigujosofuniranide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135c95a70547---19012615053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dom4m.de/userfiles/files/67753647574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d5e02c0634---8220368547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=ek+hota+carver+book+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off00011788.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11788 19756 bytes
SHA-256: e3c9f9463fbd334a40f313f39657f1ad2eeef00ae6d69fbea2c555d2bcd6e120
font_01_sfnt_off00014b02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B02 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016319.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16319 10824 bytes
SHA-256: c0c1a600d2406642c22408781e2574fbde382f81fbac035afb81f91ae14a8de3