Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c4d2d86fea8f635…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-07-25 00:23:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 7bd4186d4126e9ed7f18a2036565ffe5 SHA-1: f4372e14ffa3b38354662a89cdda2aca254a5763 SHA-256: 8c4d2d86fea8f635d8000802f46145d0402c7f3b053c32f3824272bbccdca058
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or delivering a secondary payload. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the presence of URLs like 'gta 5 cheat book ps3 money' suggests a deceptive theme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://santabruna.cl/upload/file/zijuxa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://belgium-ex.com/images/blog//file/logamamoxegobezedusisak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.abcklima.hu//data/editorfile/98727465574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getracemirates.com/userfiles/files/64470942162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdada2090b484dac48b2bf8096a54924/zoridafukaxusojotip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xigmatek.com/upload/files/69755798166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wenxuezj.com/images/File/nugogetugiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushikyototogo.com/uploads/files/xixulus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/icki6i4qpluj2c7k76ang13aji/nizagevanagisumamepapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertcomptablecourreges.fr/michel_courreges/userfiles/file/nuwufusiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bda4b5be123c3d0f350497220dfaf32e/89450506749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cengilli.com/icerik_images/file/15340550882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e8e4feef67c81da6cf4144d7ac02109/96308359602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsstaff.com/uploads/file/1180446742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferdavagnar.is/images/fck/file/99640441384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiengthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/77316861022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinag7furniture.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/gavidozajekolar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lightningriskassessment.com/ci/userfiles/files/lasigurogolot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dighakanchaninternational.com/FCKeditor/file/67328294726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9kpvmih56c01tnfjlrps1kgtss/89960481941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puppiesjust4u.com/clients/c/c8/c8a8d0e690f73854b1e7a5fbb9521f82/File/sibozomagaluzukimevuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba91207f334---meterolebufuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raylutickenterprises.com/userfiles/files/tiputevanujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezagsecurity.cz/userfiles/xovonefileninajadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vrss6jeia54metmp7jqkq36an1/85012278389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b53da1d8d24eac2f533ceaa82656aa3b/16022015244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=gta+5+cheat+book+ps3+moneyPDF 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_off0000f22d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF22D 16944 bytes
SHA-256: f7f674a299e4c5d6935004933c4674c2320173eee3d5d7a38282dcaca4c7912e
font_01_sfnt_off00011e94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E94 11092 bytes
SHA-256: 8ec31f713d32c3934c7bf43c2ce039be178d13d9dfd59bb966cc5f91c72eb9e9
font_02_sfnt_off00013830.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13830 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1