Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ace7f8359233ce1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-09-17 06:29:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 82950dd16ac6592d1ab32810e49c3f61 SHA-1: 6e222bd25af4c70f85cba5d06ceac2815fa57e88 SHA-256: 8ace7f8359233ce1051514541d7e5425e972a45ad2b26fe927d6814d480eddac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+block+a+group+of+numbers+on+android PDF link annotation
    • http://xn--9w3b270a7kf.kr/data/editor/file/30412252369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhuaduongnhapkhauaz.info/upload/files/lukisabafabusep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrrb.nexgendevgroup.com/files/64926676992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161357d8e86dc3---14888991850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acupunctuuryao.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lawoxuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://damutech.kz/upload/2021/09files/210909032703409775zogd9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hlj-vibration.com/uploads/image/20210914/files/20210914014703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jcmimoveis.com/userfiles/file/46092143760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtestbd.com/assets/uploads/files/93780380317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanda-boiler.com/d/files/vitinigeponitipez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stomerijindex.nl/images/uploads/67367615856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613115e083e70---sanovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npk-bypassdrr2.com/file_media/file_image/file/73389130365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vlr1e8n95jarlbeqig6o33m1bi/98411253786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meuseguro.top/fotosempresa/files/35223037757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://standdominica.org/files/files/16857354117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duda-tech.pl/dudatech/upload/file/36257449877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluebirdcanada.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210907_70058E2A4DC9287B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themalc.org/files/file/lijimozejajowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135d7e2590ff---63170441259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daegyung.kr/userfiles/file/20210904110235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annamsaigonlaw.com/upload/files/nojetavewawuwad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzeiger.com/userfiles/file/sekixekapobolone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profm.hu/files/file/resadegakuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nurugelexport.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51944670536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54b7425204a270b03b1afedb0d85cdcb/rosafevosodujeluzodiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heks-tech.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/38542569857.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_off0000e9ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9BA 11372 bytes
SHA-256: e6141ad523b66a389b172e68fc43b41c631c09cded9f80e5383c60cee923b576
font_01_sfnt_off00010424.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10424 18212 bytes
SHA-256: e83e61fe2bf1650575d657a2759a924acb47f9fb93d423c247af61b0b36bf909
font_02_sfnt_off0001330f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1330F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1