Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8afe4388ab215f61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 14:55:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 0e7b36c7c2d796aa9f7ae79d89fe01fc SHA-1: 38548fdcc48be35e64e625f5b0eba5280eebdcd4 SHA-256: 8afe4388ab215f61f684640a3adc11c9c29f4c954745031c4f83240ccf55938e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs and link farms pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links suggest it's designed to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=apache+pdfbox+example+code PDF link annotation
    • http://chinhlytailieuluutru.com/media/ftp/file/68796955883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105ec604e4a3---merimix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72b5cd84dc3ad0e56aef9dddde3c5453/borumixazegevosunedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businesslife.com/content/file/87646865185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mineraux-et-lithotherapie.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/36219018905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rajpuc.pl/pics/file/zipebijatodepuxawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ristoranteyuri2.com/userfiles/file/labavuwiluxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietcem.vn/public/default/ckeditor/files/35954031188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/ribozila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shih-tzu.ro/files/file/bobitasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/witali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricionintravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f22393cd05fa7ba10521521f985c77db/kakadagiseluve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chnli.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/67609389872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medianet2000.net/amm_prod/image_news_popup/file/vetekosajasijunaponisemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snnet.kr/board_pds/fckeditor/2021/06/file/ruvibokeduvogizituwudik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a5b2c84cc7---68189002658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanruouvang.net/images/uploaded/file/dufokodamiwukevuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iswii.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lotidusapajamona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac121faf901---65910717336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093de3da3ab7---kimirula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fcfc88d4ef3---saxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ln80.cn/filespath/files/20210813192627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://888spirits.com/userfiles/file/dosotikavesopaxivekof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a411d29ded6---90288789244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szalkasszorutacskok.hu/app/webroot/files/content/files/52699781433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientu24h.vn/webroot/img/files/milupusawez.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_off0000b9a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1BF 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 81675bb11fe649cf939329ce9ff3918fe946b460969ba75cd4fc6137ac0fe0ba
font_02_sfnt_off0000e994.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE994 17408 bytes
SHA-256: 57b432a74af45d9b9c3f7904c4d78527fac1692ef50e4a0e207ea9d861ded9fb