Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ad24333f1a11bd0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:32:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 375f2b5ebbe146930b2fcf3555469caf SHA-1: 83b9c617bfb4de9b4e11feecb998d64197f1cd80 SHA-256: 8ad24333f1a11bd0dda561029587f40dfc14240b485c451e540b622b5b16ed86
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many of which are associated with file uploads on potentially compromised sites, indicates a strong likelihood of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://www.gitialiganjlko.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34841883170.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://livestreaming.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74v953rs17nvu0t1tosh565gbnl1k20s/14136799782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://secolink.sk/userfiles/file/tevese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a52047f1b---61321783881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddaa4fe45a3---12826189117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketingnews.fr/images/file/93456600110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgt.eu/uploads/file/7490045251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merlegdoktor.hu/tmp/85232866377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uralinteh.com/uploads/files/zekujokiwol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8f9c481148---zarimexus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viscom.bg/uploads/wysiwyg/files/38989530479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhs1973.com/clients/64426/File/97467333919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inwama4.vn/webroot/img/files/xadomubez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b4u9gims0j2dtnmo35630bo32/13542282504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8grj5ovotrprg84bd6anj2su60/fijivab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-lubertsy.ru/upload_picture/file/64847514685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c24fdc6ccb5---buvexivepegeralorawiwugut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circuitoinsulargc.com/documentos/file/xeziri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/28311821556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agencement-menuiserie-var.fr/stockages/files/49683157829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovellreunion.com/clients/4/42/420738e4954c29d3cfd02fdb1bc9139f/File/5938966883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/tinufurozobez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--knstlerische-biografie-arbeit-lbd.ch/userfiles/files/nikogaromuxaroporafur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----dtbsgbucafmmaf.xn--p1ai/servimages/editor/files/vawazuxetupavimesimul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=primary+sources+and+secondary+sources+worksheetPDF 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_off0000e559.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE559 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD70 10980 bytes
SHA-256: e8fe7a04cda83f26d92cff481a03d9c89b942b51a4256d3c3877d347c482bbb8
font_02_sfnt_off000116d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116D6 18528 bytes
SHA-256: fc6ccfbb9d8afa0d4e4913e6edc4ee4fda0f43c7d095d5ad1281395a1ccfcf98