Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b8ea82dccc6cb34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-06-12 09:09:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0a12765edea9b2128f271d456d553b41 SHA-1: 6c0198da28b76b58c00e6dcbd976f7d72f3e8319 SHA-256: 8b8ea82dccc6cb34329db606aebfaf4617c9fd729afa865a046d70e0c5990098
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The presence of a lure related to 'Instro liker login' and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent to deceive users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for credential theft or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=instro+liker+login
    • http://wrtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210609_BEA6CA722785416B.pdf
    • http://capesociety.ca/uploads/files/98711888029.pdf
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/degojimufuvorobox.pdf
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcfb7b75754---jazosumud.pdf
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e05362f9b---viwaratejasezaruwoxubosal.pdf
    • http://bjjiffy.com/upload/nilolejazekon.pdf
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fb07dc24d5---wekalalosusosivokixurumow.pdf
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609879b7428af---92220305699.pdf
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609acafa9bd88---fatusolonifuwiwuwewiwaru.pdf
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd8955b821b---botezafebe.pdf
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c1c4906d50d219073d0b16715903850/82957958747.pdf
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081d56c88ffc---jamomofo.pdf
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/111710d5189d0dcd999d33a43eced353/winilebal.pdf
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cad81387fe3f2321b8d203fc48580b13/goteloturedatedosu.pdf
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942aef76d57---xajigoxifonizezevo.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011376.bin
c191c5d91e682b9cc653df073ace489f6660e9ec2c1ffb0374f33d2b410e56a4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11376 4644 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012353.bin
02b6296eb0518731e2477cc42d60398cd2262c5af4dbf7ae78a6d24876c3627c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12353 11264 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014a11.bin
147306a5fa47f360c13f7477f9e60c86f491be611cc6684aba4643b20556f13d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A11 16124 bytes