Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ae05253c6535989…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-21 09:15:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 245d386b4d24a5850807dd29858f89f7 SHA-1: 1928cfed0c9627b26669b34a5428f7f4a550b6c8 SHA-256: 8ae05253c65359894d718d7c9b5e4d04d802c61dc45d71a8b223bfb0e56b4381
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://kayapalinakliyat.net/file/44572258894.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://metalzilemboeventi.com/userfiles/files/51839639633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagliodeimille.it/userfiles/files/22278521695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://185.33.116.145/~acus01/upload/files/57791756664.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://suadienlanhhanoi.net/upload/files/94815142846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreaseals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46141451909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlas-consulting.ro/fckeditor/fisiere/file/93179044918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bdkgoice2g7njf8678569q6d7/84884384725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zussobrance.sk/grafika/dokumenty/43522072794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://packamate.com/userfiles/91292584477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.highlandernepal.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jelujobajozekijaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolorenzino.eu/userfiles/files/16156842872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613223cd14961---kuzagafutojipat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twfbs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9427882924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cs168.tw/upfiles/editor/files/6443900985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamzalegalservices.com/userfiles/file/94417965714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotwresort.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kesofalosemexomukixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turystyka.powiatlubartowski.pl/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73915239137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e37c087def---54112143507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shunnasato.com/74870199097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobath.com/app/webroot/img/files/lozosexabuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iuoshili.com/upload/users/files/pasuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findingthegrey.com/userfiles/file/vawogotak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prctech-th.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vepimam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+text+photo+on+androidPDF 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_off0000d549.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD549 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED5B 17828 bytes
SHA-256: 0bd21f8c748f82f73ceb0d6c3eaa5d153d8e5f6f3cb736f3847106f0f625b537
font_02_sfnt_off00011ac6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AC6 10452 bytes
SHA-256: 9fb78da1e6fbeeb257ab404eea1c53ab7134a4b7fc8d31aca5b45b8d51f4f501