Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c2c89db7bf82a08…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.8 KB Created: 2021-09-12 07:45:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2bf6e849f25355c1279be7495213758a SHA-1: eb3a0bc874d8aceb6692807d7b2dfd30ed6469b1 SHA-256: 8c2c89db7bf82a08d4e8f92e6b41951365f0304a44e8e3a9af0b65bee0345321
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or redirection scheme. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+positive+and+negative+impact+of+social+media
    • http://ajisushionline.com/uploads/files/mupepefizafinerevaxude.pdf
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202109/file/bixakazafu.pdf
    • http://tiendanatacion.com/noticias/files/jowawugugosivelikezixa.pdf
    • https://voziky-paletove.cz/mctree.cz/pictures/other/files/77816954297.pdf
    • http://apartament-krokus.pl/userfiles/file/pevuliwexu.pdf
    • https://groupburuemas2.com/contents/files/nodojirinet.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137c6dfeb7d6---kegokido.pdf
    • http://daehwa.info/uploaded/file/35684271767.pdf
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/di1fv8ocnl4869j42sjbkiecoj/16436710678.pdf
    • http://bezpiecznamlodosc.org/files/file/46815274669.pdf
    • https://ssmahavidyalaya.org/lion/uploadedfiles/fck/files/file/gakozesesazekikin.pdf
    • http://conditum.nl/userfiles/file/dowekitane.pdf
    • https://efficientinfocomm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1227936238.pdf
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/lexuva.pdf
    • https://jss-moms.si/upload/File/vixovikop.pdf
    • http://podolsk-kondicionery.ru/upload_picture/file/49650154706.pdf
    • http://phongkhamthienhoa.org/images/files/13327300862.pdf
    • https://www.q-jin.ne.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64683285853.pdf
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161368e458fb43---45989119754.pdf
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134426d8a48f---57747869626.pdf
    • https://playindiano1.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73716400107.pdf
    • http://thinhhoanggia.vn/Images_upload/files/8165127068.pdf
    • http://tercovci.cz/files/file/5896825289.pdf
    • 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://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_off00010207.bin
9b3b90023aa1237b82ceb8ed47fcafa07e772f163b8c7d39c425f4aa8affe91f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10207 17580 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012fc8.bin
a49fd5ef0375c5f9c1e9f372cd4905ad1c8fbf440932ce01be12cd5fac84d287
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FC8 10996 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014900.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14900 16792 bytes