Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ad309f4a7c2f04c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 23:14:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 397970c1372b3b202db83ec0b6253126 SHA-1: c3dcc9e5dae29b1ed129bdedb099d6393e1e93f9 SHA-256: 8ad309f4a7c2f04c197bdac0a4c785caa0ecac1d22a370bee58b72d9077a8e4f
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URI patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=oximeter+check+on+which+finger PDF link annotation
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/srrhop7kbumf3c1t4klrnr6do9/67450731342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6a2b748535---32148221721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokorny-podlahy.cz/UserFiles/File/77906404138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160900ed2d8012---74055506052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e42838314c71e90f7596344dc9537b10/26749195234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intergeored.com/upload/File/kesalikugipaxizevosok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rloaeeablvkgcifivdhr53inl1/takinepowukew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b6651b3d24---doxapod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1fb87dbf90b97e43b402fb87af17a28/31091354290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewdel.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56880169341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erex.hu/upload/file/kitubogelivanimufutamikuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ever-progress.com/upload/files/vusakedudekamutemadobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isvpro.com/custom/files/22647904068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cualuoihoanmy.com/uploads/userfiles/file/75340944127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/2021621717306052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a399d2c8e9a---74471491017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae3958738b3---8848520928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc70dd6edbb---xajulorim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sbufficio.it/file/1449007628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ffe54aefb9---tabebinukanabazofiwawov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagumul.com/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210513101024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2nkiais9sk73nju9qgrr4n5ubn/1848084325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a04e52ff3f---dusulupixemagotudob.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/userfiles/file/10825530555.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_off00013f66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F66 20336 bytes
SHA-256: 0f0172c7c837810bc62f8e90e01ca70e5b911231673438ae19e0a2b149dbba9e
font_01_sfnt_off000173b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x173B5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00018bcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18BCC 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 64b60281d1f96d6d6663004f2836df7c2e3104178156cc2567cf2a752bdd2bf8