Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ac44404d9a4e77f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 19:57:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 9f63e3919a235ab8097c62cabd8c9a20 SHA-1: 6e50cc6d89e08e879e95853b917defc0c48e5c5b SHA-256: 8ac44404d9a4e77f292e58880cccacd243fe2bea33673c39ec55ec385ffd11a9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1055.012 Process Injection

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 ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The file's structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF used to lure victims to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 http://ge-mak.com/files/nuvewisif.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://seedcambodia.org/htdocs/cljr/data/files/75571934205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137b9b4a31a4---norenaxomenagamemix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/741f6883268cbc09ed475bd1088511c0/7214252943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highspiritsmusic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79158511597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dryoucosmeceutical.com/userfiles/files/6695124757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/075760bfc4908049bc08945e8c2398df/vaxegakagepuforigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conelser.hu/fck_uploads/file/17175782154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jindi2010.com/uploadfile/files/3892032656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mannerfeltdesignteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77829954957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://es21sys.com/userfiles/file/wazufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tinnituskozpont.hu/files/90248856827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://louisamerino.com/userfiles/file/14693139687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syuncyoku.jp/upload/file/goruzefure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc47bf407d9a64ac673baf3ff41f2173/xirobalezuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chablis-gautherin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wetiwagowavozovufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miltonmattox.com/userfiles/file/judazal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hantechwelding.com/userfiles/file/2021090822085573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.logomarcanet.com/userfiles/file/11036017545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafconsulting.pl/Upload/file/kumopavomukikomunese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goozzl.com/userfiles/files/90868695464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvuhieuchuan.com/upload/files/givokanav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://b40555.handyfriendship.com/upload/files/zemivivizuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=child+care+and+protection+act+2004+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_off0000e76b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE76B 18736 bytes
SHA-256: 9d83a36d67c89218fdda453731df63e8afc322eec70360d63ee7f8958b57d7f0
font_01_sfnt_off00011893.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11893 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000130aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130AA 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 73cb58bca435aa35902c28b7dda3a7dd26bf9f9cfd9230bbe5cd0d131925cf27