Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c5de87762a04fc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-09-11 10:35:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 87bf2d4549bfbcda7267c85f6c7115d2 SHA-1: ccf38f2a243c53c86e370c5692ddc39b683ac2db SHA-256: 8c5de87762a04fc17252c782c58d094435862894e9aaa0a2927c289885020cbe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=redmi+k30+5g+vs+redmi+k30i+5g PDF link annotation
    • https://vmgeducationtrust.org/home/vmgedu/public_html/public/userfiles/file/zuzeniferomeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxmeterthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25805288192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perkunasstudio.com/uploads/files/202109090749332635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steelfurniturecn.com/d/files/pakapinenajem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncsccalgary.com/userfiles/files/jazufolituzudaruwizabar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scouttautomotive.com/editor_uploads/system/files/jowabukaxetubipav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltes.tw-goods.com/UserFiles/files/23806970132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.macrolepidoptera.hu/userfiles/files/97291980611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dreptultau.hotnews.md/upload/userfiles/files/50647903619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bzws.zhanyougame.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58030408383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161352f9393b27---84892039410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatvideo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/690058296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613742a8e41b1---nenebifurajivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45340c310c8425fb84afbf45e58b7e00/43984475577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aatmicscience.org/asuserfiles/file/6766074044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizimpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/buvetagewipikexid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.netcorp.hu/data/editorfile/35054481838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kasihpaham.com/contents/files/63196127980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khodahoanglang.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/vuzivejoxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voyagevietnamlaos.com/hinhanh/file/wozoxawilinejipodigebew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renfrewareahealthvillage.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/minug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungwoo-n.com/userfiles/file/65414858841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theelementrama9.com/userfiles/files/xisirovuduwifedoxojubosul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomarcheluzzo.it/userfiles/files/bonibef.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_off0000afc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFC8 16344 bytes
SHA-256: d9e26a41af624a26fac8a587feec753a792e4b5f9eeebce9483dd61c8dc2e501
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9A9 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 1fe1ba7aa6a529fe98690a7603c4961efe9f2ff8804b26c6400aef3c8362291f
font_02_sfnt_off0000f205.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF205 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1