Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ca9837b5e057570…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-07-15 23:34:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 569bbf76aac697f72c0e0965f73bbf63 SHA-1: bcf39eab714a131b961997ca5a541785f8a9eb1d SHA-256: 8ca9837b5e057570f86c3ee84de41ee9e9d16903a5c8a5bfd49a570642690b7e
176 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, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a common lure for initial compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://luyenthidhcanhsat.com/Images_upload/files/bedopekoloj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1188dcf840---94502406462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://controldellaves.com/app/webroot/arxius/file/getuted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airtelco.com/data/users/_/email/files/veludelup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/937c7f63a73dd9483607644a25f9c4da/98974601651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bebe3bc5962349280b4e50c63f45cf37/11373197229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changwontour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210616_270C74455C9B6592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fadcf9eb9a---68597986176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riondene.ch/img/uploads/file/tikezovojuwikimamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee90bad7774---vabevimanone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olversonfamilyreunion.org/clients/5/51/51a48c89da211807e19ed56f8a1a1822/File/rekirozut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/bimewutikojulemin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.125.49/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210707_142920.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://promocode.lu/userfiles/files/kujime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a354e6fc9b18dcaf9dfa09a0dbb03817/5058133847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tailormade-sales-marketing.com/userfiles/file/zazamuleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alumnicollegedelunion.org/clients/76066/File/23944157357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buka.ru/sadm_files/50311033217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomalpocher.it/userfiles/files/ludinolamiwuvuwegaxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragonera.cn/admin/userfiles/file/714230403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schmitz.cz/res/file/24326573410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160952db3e6c36---kagili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylincinarli.com/fckfiles/file/parowinugebivirikepar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=free+photoshop+psd+files+layers+downloadPDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2233ae7f21ad3d06b0fd682cdc5dacc5/4872362910.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_off0000e9b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9B1 17336 bytes
SHA-256: 077eb6abdc4b017478b702e8de8c625002cd122818a440af59d600dc3f540db7
font_01_sfnt_off00011721.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11721 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 0f3bda92328d3ae862bcca551e7cfe96036922c4b7519f4b862e8ded16ca57ae
font_02_sfnt_off00012fe6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FE6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1