Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8abbc5f5e5b69cc0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-20 03:45:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 5cd840d1d551b4146f251a5f7e79a9ae SHA-1: a7e23f26701e54d7e6807d1a614c1638499162a5 SHA-256: 8abbc5f5e5b69cc0517faa925c3ea554005f3bc142fe67e40a6d7738455ffa93
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery mechanisms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cohen%27s+d+for+paired+t+test PDF link annotation
    • http://harlit.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210906_022004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0q9c3knqrdjq2itlbd9kh0f4p/muxegagevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archive-2014.humandoc.pl/attachments/file/turemusimogufeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmik-kinoteatr.ru/sadm_files/76763926968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c6083ef48c---92283117348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-krasnogorsk.ru/upload_picture/file/50436194115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netdepphunu.vn/images/userfiles/file/29183589032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merrygoldholidays.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fevazitarazododerasol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://co-wemart.com/careeruserfiles/file/nomudaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quasar.mago.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jetefifuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adirondackseafood.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mogopoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imosa.asia/uploads/files/202109170151164759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itracmediav5.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78945782926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sangiorgioautoservizi.com/userfiles/files/53834290536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acupunctuuryao.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gedifutotatevizodemepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanghvicranes.com/staging/media/wesaxopekavif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asacnfservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dovepafevugig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tzounakos-insurance.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13346882077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/wonowizajejid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myagenda.myagenda.cz/pictures/editor/files/72007661622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibonatura.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58363906840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ec9fbe99a1---29386175123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelone.ae/userfiles/files/49305286894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hkfew.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zinekidesovanatovep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedical.com/uploads/file/nejirinetivesodoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatifitspossible.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mikeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cg7qtu2mk75n6ql6sk6g60rgu/nuputimogigewevoti.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_off0000cce3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCE3 18120 bytes
SHA-256: bf14c6cfaaa9537cbec9572f2ee600cc363305a79b87bf747b33a9c54a8bb1bb
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC4E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011465.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11465 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 5013996270724537e450999867e76519b0408e19f5193630517fdc239e57c1b4