Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c1619bda3f2731d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 01:59:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 2f804f4b88c4b1f239882d871ddd716d SHA-1: 97f12d01eff5d24870e2dd1ca92bbc89b3a27c75 SHA-256: 8c1619bda3f2731dfda2dbb9a9c8d406f2333fcfad984607a9d239c094bd3427
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics point towards an attempt to exploit users via external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 http://billedbutikken.dk/articlefiles/file/74771255286.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sfmcvgui4e3ga24en276jfcoao/lasifukepinilubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161210b48b32c9---fisifiwixud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kururlaub-ungarn.de/bilder/files/jubekejubunazini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fjzy18.com/image/uload/files/lekosavulixijisoxusak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarksville.net/wysiwygfiles/file/31802591172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5831cc7fc36674a408ec4c6d88d0a9f0/20669670352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdee7190396---jepomazigadexugujodenufut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enewind.com/pliki/file/12185477614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intertexmedical.com/userfiles/files/gexiseli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa954207dfd---25419078135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://impex-italia.it/userfiles/files/kefobotilimugubaveme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bb4d48ad9b1bd7590fb887327a1d3f5/13949244942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomland.com/sites/bloomland.com/files/98900763544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e65458bb1dec874f02db1fbb470d4c66/vonimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e3b507dfa---wedumivuvizevasosadaniteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rowadhr.com/app/webroot/upload/files/pokajogimenavuramorod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/40125748887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160762af6c9c1d---xotekebilop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a73665778---tinazalediwipizojetelip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zohopin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/58118544075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gezond-trakteren.nl/kasteel-doornenburg-img/bestandenfile/3181885077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7e1f3e2b4e---dexozerudum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=child+maintenance+act+pdfPDF 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_off0000e15c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE15C 10528 bytes
SHA-256: 235a33f46c0d49fb29296f46618867d9db51311b9df2e3c3011c85b75a1374dd
font_01_sfnt_off0000f90f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF90F 17324 bytes
SHA-256: 2c769f9ae844684305db9a3a4dd2440a884a6d26698aeaf7d09557478e00ff0b
font_02_sfnt_off0001263e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1263E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1