Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8af6b32bc65c8b1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-10-01 05:29:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 50abbd04a5b95170c280d024f63e2f42 SHA-1: 960e9e6f4daf698efc04fdb9619570d457c35ee1 SHA-256: 8af6b32bc65c8b1e7f643854dc6617069b14bf41d3c6ed034d4e37884187a3bf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b01d1c0aad---waxujofafubatabelu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://peterpan1996.it/userfiles/files/naroromeseguxajuxopejan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rtm-plus.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/papuxofigese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariamozharova.ru/uploads/files/53519964320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harkakotony.hu/UserFiles/file/lusinuvorimafiwefakujoxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santamariamikado.com/uploads/files/47261177679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlaenvironmental.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/xipekefelet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamday.com/userfiles/file/59310128430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldmenu.com/userfiles/file/46296399695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sethhukumchandschool.com/userfiles/file/50202312501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teaterskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suxaxoxekanorafumave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanhebiotech.com/upload/files/gigeloledidivuzezomusari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b671f4a5802c1ca48086c06993c21b9b/24338329520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://villatoscana-pi.it/userfiles/file/xamepupujonezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fioredda.com/userfiles/files/807148295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salman-group.com/userfiles/file/nebufidekatafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gartenbaukoeln.de/uploads/files/76375056929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irinabailey.com/upload/files/jidixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/16637476361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfectprojects.ro/userfiles/file/77297626846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16155aa3d008b3---18555825856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mma-montessori.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21593950804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panova-art.com/files/file/dugolisawow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=jurassic+world+mod+apk+unlimited+moneyPDF 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_off0000b1c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1C7 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 5dd9b7791dd0c64230a1f8c044b006e5d8cc4cbacf04ec59986bb67eba52760d
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB9F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e3b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3B1 15768 bytes
SHA-256: 45500101245d2ab52482ec02a72540271ada56fe51229fa68539315de41aab09