Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8af732230b820b79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 17:49:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: fb6725b12b2091fda0df19326ed973c3 SHA-1: fc397fb4e74d68c02e348a8bebcda4960f9971ba SHA-256: 8af732230b820b7960189d08828ae0228574a8675df1a51f78352c2c2084524b
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a lure to download a password-protected archive. The presence of multiple PDF-related heuristics and ClamAV detection indicates malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a791815ec94e88c84134064899b13af8/48888367712.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://elementsgogreen.com/userfiles/file/tujedofaxobatugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haidangpc.com/contents/files/14951587469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdsalon.ru/img/lib/file/14307034422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamtimeshare.com/userfiles/file/fivetelarawerevez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juniorclublivorno.com/sitonews/images_upload/files/tumajosamodofewegevod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylincinarli.com/fckfiles/file/46881780990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariapolis.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gitivawopakoxewokazuguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.net/data/cms/file/77982859780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.examnotice.in/uploads/files/nelidop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sahodayabbsr.com/test/fckeditor/file/62555514664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b32c28a79e1be89c1bbc70a5ebe86927/40546121440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandp.ru/userfiles/file/89054750116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topupdana.com/contents//files/gadipakusagupotat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.basur-tedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d47f8eaa7c---61564117757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capital96.com/userfiles/file/nufaxobixib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crcnueva.naturasoftware.com/uploads/images/files/74638535813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marjoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/josabapunififekujuvazewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicodavico.eu/userfiles/files/24683119688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caudafotografia.com/userfiles/files/peribudemuxanex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/954c50cf8d61a847455064d811126b2b/60596260372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aqualibramontois.be/fckdownload/file/63837941386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fst-uinsu.net/userfiles/files/4801900721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://behtarinekhodetbash.com/files/files/ruvomenaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campcolefamilyreunion.com/clients/82065/File/99632845805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/45335499624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=reduce+the+size+of+a+pdf+file+for+emailingPDF 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_off0000dd81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD81 11272 bytes
SHA-256: 6326a987adcbd37989340c4342840b54cab320e4acae25822f428c2a36d4f0a5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f79a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF79A 17972 bytes
SHA-256: 6f2c4406cf7aa441d765da0cbe1beceb19bf85bbb57900711b679c2f0314b617
font_02_sfnt_off000125d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1