Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ba448a2df863529…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-17 23:47:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 9dfc520351e9de46c3aa2bafd6895e04 SHA-1: 5a81a8dc3ef2670a5d766baea4a67ad3f31b7c16 SHA-256: 8ba448a2df863529974b6fd87b2c58cdca2f7fc8495e9ecf7801d0b8f80d7abc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure point towards a common phishing or malware delivery pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=100+meter+sprint+game PDF link annotation
    • https://ropaalmayoreo.com/images/userfiles/file/43213171333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lynhuagiasi.com/Images_upload/files/74699904942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://associazionemusicaviva.it/uploads/file/17432610098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazomotor.com/allinone/file/xudakigalibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/93827361927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dpsszczytno.pl/photo/file/14061488309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/llm1spa247qndh93illcdv7l42/rixiragurejokologibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldanang.com/uploads/images/files/gipexafogutekosasebeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interativacorretora.com/fotosempresa/files/51344423938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hawaiisushi.iorderfoods.com/uploads/files/bezosejel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/vafofejafuwatenivegonex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milwaukee.center/userfiles/file/bufukitodusazatesepage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grancom.by/upload/docs/bisagipaxegapopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e4d39b083c---binoroke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/89076516654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139137a601ee---41675265493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mintedimages.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zesalaxeterakorebuzejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datxeninhbinh.com/data/dulieu/files/potegiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210904020106_1617214342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://futuresbuilder.net/dayafter/uploadimages/newsimages/file/silijewupebawelitito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkontakt.pl/dat/file/vugagupuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uzmanwebci.com/calisma2/files/uploads/3887534053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottomaniantextile.com/userfiles/file/39322779848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akazwaeiw.xn--p1ai/editorfiles/file/27186691769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cauthangdep24h.com/upload/files/80557870018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://print-resource.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rotesexulo.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_off0000d8f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8F0 17468 bytes
SHA-256: e688eaffb68b218fe949fc9080eb48978890b2dfaa4a48b1d1b2680234557338
font_01_sfnt_off00010642.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10642 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E59 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 166496b6269fa90913b95f87e007c4aead7a48cf827921396baa5b4e45e13274