Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ab3ae06072a5a74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 04:48:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 7e09a76102cba5d7216abab4518a44da SHA-1: 787236ee34d4911fdbe1650a60162fa032f2d347 SHA-256: 8ab3ae06072a5a74513cfa54adecafcde060c25011be123edce6995e139928d0
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it likely exploits PDF vulnerabilities. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and IP addresses, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs and a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/jepuki.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.asoriofrio.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/liditaxowevixaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jandenzobv.com/image_uploads/file/pubaronus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yummyschool.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/dupira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2a7302c4e---xofibadotaxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/91613245712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dec6fcedd53---82475235156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cutencuddlybreedables.com/_images/file/gejopadubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fff1d3345e---gusepali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/bobuwuzew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66a9ff5e357202fb95c6f1a1855d75e8/wazuxizulomori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alves.bg/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83272859269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1ce2092765---60014193267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rv55ojnca0d80bc0fjjq2sqkgt/deluboxikedorosifanedera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b72f478c490513b665539ab4d2ccd293/pupasugamax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barcelonacentremedic.cat/files/galeria/files/zadetolasivarejowafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1770c77b402a498bdb3a031337d3889e/dowavixozokexetekizejuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210617180157698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c799fe1d133---tefixisumotenogiw.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://keifo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zobuxizakezaxisejej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lukinserv.hu/file/lubipebodujizuxulasekisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=sap+plm+basics+pdfPDF 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_off0000d7d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7D9 10440 bytes
SHA-256: 4ec578e5c52707741eef33630b2d4998df0066f080729e4b03378ed24a522978
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF37 18540 bytes
SHA-256: 114286b939b0fdeb839e05cf72438835641793b80bf59b8ab38b1e612a04f447
font_02_sfnt_off00011f56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F56 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1