Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c659d37dcbf6fa7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-09-30 22:46:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 94afecc44da3295e316f00dcf1b14f98 SHA-1: 2a02cae0e0861f6fdf297be82259e9764c9e4274 SHA-256: 8c659d37dcbf6fa7c5caa06ec4cf05d3798af8b7e61c61c6f2608e7fcc1fa566
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The PDF structure itself appears to be a link farm, designed to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+accessibility+checker+mac PDF link annotation
    • https://taksis.lv/taksis/userfiles/file/xuvumulapogegomiremudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kargo-box.com/uploads/files/nafuxodofogidekil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njchemland.com/upload/files/34667518924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16152c15a792d4---87120426769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodtraefarm.com/ckupload/files/rokiponagase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nusamulticentralestari.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/55390273738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vr-spagna-20.effievirtual.com/galeria/files/4350095221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134249c68dcf---87883463345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulceoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/14855648016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atccs3.it/atccs3/fckeditor/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/939634787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soi.icami.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dokut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kantoromega.pl/userfiles/file/rosogox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.beverburcht.nl/upload/files/89970108608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cieplej.pl/imgturysta/file/26207657230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/28801354708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ettermanenterprises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mefujapidokiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f6b366aca257420e3a3b283406fe693/75688819789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j5r6vs3n46q004k9ac089htr5d/muwuxeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hobbyschuurtje-webwinkel.be/images/userfiles/file/sagutotuwoxutefimulereg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tysons-cafe.com/uploads/files/30416446454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0k87ebv21j3cl9gjgc4nl1r3pt/tabilugunet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gajagotour.com/UserFiles/file/vamebug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoholaodong24.com/userfiles/file/34526607823.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_off0000b30d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB30D 17432 bytes
SHA-256: e0432d7de086f3bfb2247b13fef3b24323c7df96aa96ac6b6079f921ba8f74c0
font_01_sfnt_off0000e00d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE00D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f824.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF824 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 09db1263a92b993d3ac45b32d4c32d9d5d724f6fa24f4792c1be63d1c511e6a7