Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ab57d5b7f622d5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.7 KB Created: 2021-09-19 01:18:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 43d25e126e9d4abd46bd146f34f10953 SHA-1: f3097370ffb33f09f46f1cd22aa2a583db42f3c2 SHA-256: 8ab57d5b7f622d5f9f188d36d0d943b7513817c3bd09b6fa44b0e69db1deed41
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9790

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=full+hd+movie+chal+mera+putt+2 PDF link annotation
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132844476d3c---61991439612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moneymaker-gold.de/files/36671137226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b7b.reviewz.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/japoveremiburivelurosevim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertbah.si/files/file/56848696813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ll9eeebada8hl7kqbi9u48r54/37679009927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://air-ned.com/uploads/files/xupewamuzafinejikada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sudeshnamaulik.com/fckimages/file/84025904887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erh-hu.com/userfiles/file/62146681250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qqwandai.com/uploadfile/file/pukubelepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614113b81e092---relazodonumazadibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonasixtytwo.com/userfiles/file/69549063494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalensi.com/public/File/40876040505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e854de4948b0bfc8e0cb1595dd68c83b/57193424734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villapellegrino.it/userfiles/files/webemokomad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naszemotyle.natura2000.pl/imgturysta/files/18143099503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614590ea76868---tanut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divorcefinance.nl/uploads/file/fimexojek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturpix.ch/cmsimages/file/12216720802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentistvanpatika.hu/upload/file/kotefupeberixazuwaledega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://realfootball.gr/userfiles/file/86543020252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portableandcool.com/files/files/94101154555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tabularasa.lv/sites/tabularasa/uploads/documents/files/riwuwevodubusobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giorgimpianti.com/userfiles/file/sebarosukevoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valkexclusief.reviewz.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/puwugimidelovalojulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6c6315d8c5a659e6fcdef8396deb938/69125841055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangtriasianwindow.com/uploads/image/files/laxaxi.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_off00012d7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D7B 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 4799402155a3c487d0032dae420d6570d77b4812e942a159f488af0b7f41c1a9
font_01_sfnt_off00014647.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14647 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015e59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15E59 19388 bytes
SHA-256: 780e05bc8021f7a0f78da9a2eee4589acc0a8ca18afb62bee47edbbebe88780f

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