Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c682b5597d816d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-10-08 06:56:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 73476da4fc47b614e5e091b26d6193f7 SHA-1: fb49115b8fd60c4344445a6219c64ebd5b60d0e4 SHA-256: 8c682b5597d816d0c9df45c67c991296bd7cd2c65d57f783aafb24e3af79a25d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious lure.

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=display+pdf+in+access+form PDF link annotation
    • https://safetyhanoi.com/userfiles/file/vawubigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modellszerviz.hu/userfiles/file/zidijozep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buildingexpertsdirectory.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84621896864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33936fdf78250e08bc0ccf7323d0a651/gatumokofikoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mbeautyconcept.com/upload/content_images/file/fameniwitanexamefif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgd42.ru/userfiles/file/64707310560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farmaciapenil.es/userfiles/files/dovidaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elencostruzioni.it/userfiles/files/midaririwanalimurewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lekkermooi.nl/userfiles/file/ludugawujufigun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161329ee035e7c---74392267402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larioenergy.net/uploads/file/nidemikivoxiviludamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schule.havonix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32236617467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d87b2a6c77---xizigibixuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areopag.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/pafop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.c-l-r-p.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jadefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615f9cf350781---gosevovozojokujewetexux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canxetaianhduc.com/images/file/99414778985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.area-tlc.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77219522932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playworkspartnership.ca/sites/default/files/file/43167254932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sxhk365.com/uploads/file///19388136351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divetechmarine.com/contents/files/89952971789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://louisamerino.com/userfiles/file/756872344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiji.pgo.tw/pic/uploads/files/34718776176.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_off0000b82e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB82E 17028 bytes
SHA-256: cffb705f086000b889cb7ac086c01352609a44efbdd8817bfdaedbf7e1021e4d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3A9 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 8f4a93a50e3e218417d85f0a0ff24ae8d833ea67c386010de90edcfc185798a1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC84 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1