Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b73e89ec8c32112…

MALICIOUS

PDF

122.4 KB Created: 2021-10-05 02:01:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 30615d50ca3bdf3cf06a389abf7c4be6 SHA-1: ae6f1d2292af29ac08969e295e7beb666b5e7e5c SHA-256: 8b73e89ec8c32112606d70fc7d4aa06b78d7ba105286b1ff6aa3849b1cbda23f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise, directing users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9897

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://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145b60bf3e7f---xudom.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bluza-shop.ru/content/File/nevijexanebejowatajad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lynxitservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ditevepopanemajepaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hausdergesundheit.net/userfiles/files/rotitafozixunuxonafaruwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a9188.com/upload_files/art_files/files/20210908_034012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bordahusfeldolgozo.hu/editor_up/30033416804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161533e6e58b77---81175726255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timnhanhonline.com/upload/files/sowirazaviloxifovom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://databaze-zdarma.cz/userfiles/files/24797316843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://huanghecables.com/d/files/64935934523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.andreapondika.cz/file/sosixataruvewimoviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://exam10.menapoint.com/app/webroot/upload/files/19824709050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.antoniopopolizio.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10104760740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hani-bee.com/userfiles/files/72783587435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabriziocar.it/userfiles/files/jelexemetuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3t-t.com/User_File/UpFile/file/20210904070006_d290aWd1c2Vwb2ZpZHV0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potravinyav21.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16308779309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbiotovn.com/Images_upload/files/ziwuloruranawagijotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ydchem.cn/filespath/files/20210917153054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henghuitong.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210929034413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dr-temt.ru/images/file/69448552427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izumrud38.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/janivusoniba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16153ef5750c24---38007811086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jimsdelibrookhaven.com/demo/jimsdeli/admin/userfilesfile/mapisibasuvepugude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirakuramen.com/uploads/files/58484756486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/95371464182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transturist.ba/ckeditor/ckfinder/files/files/nafevazowagasomek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=ethics+meaning+in+tamilPDF 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_off000170b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x170B3 10440 bytes
SHA-256: 8cf1ddc76fe85a3dd5351b93d3076a40bd16111d41e397bed399b276946b070e
font_01_sfnt_off0001882b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1882B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001a03d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A03D 22772 bytes
SHA-256: decad215e062947642d5e2c78197956fe025d09a1ca649d8909dd07e8858af9f