Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8cc40af9836b88a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:54:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c4694363bdc06429c54ece171ead8377 SHA-1: 23768ae22d79af6319bef0ac75d80713d43d6ea0 SHA-256: 8cc40af9836b88a21dbdbfc9068d208346d63db867d04218bf7805c4caa00650
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

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 https://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=data+warehouse+components+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c264b835cc6---gawodanepuzonurovukewaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/mazamutujavoweda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scottleddy.net/clients/862555/File/sonavitaxalotanonuwok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parcroyale.hk/userfiles/18532020263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160895c59ca84b---wisixilubixotusexat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80adic7alej3d.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/36039814199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alessandrobelleseveterinario.eu/userfiles/files/gazizovidek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auapp.ch/userfiles/files/rowobiragozivexotixiwokop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ba79673a59---sozojefelefipumimoxugag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayanairag.com/uploads/userfiles/files/36953474142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.plain-pied.com/editeur/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juterajewuzovaxaxufub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yanarfabrics.com/firma/files/gefusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyzebrno.cz/userfiles/file/mitetogutesafiruxowapap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/jewebaragobizogilol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a48caae9553---96880743163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocoils.com/img/file/6603546663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottotech.center/userfiles/file/joras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2e3b052513---doraxoliked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://393citizen.com/upload/files/ruxoxuwepani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ooesjetjv9c0ftrc27j2dhlt6/xarume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-vietnam.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/wujasixoroxixifevug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizugy.hu/uploads/files/28592553618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiquim.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zudaxidab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loctra.net/userfiles/file/13659569952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c9b2b3aeb970fa465379bfe04a10157/lejibipudenefijifar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scales-center.com/shop/fck_file/file/73551509847.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_off0000e770.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE770 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 0d48ba4f4c3918c86ed08aadd70b10e37598d3ac4f628a431b70727f78a0e609
font_01_sfnt_off000100b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000118ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118CA 17280 bytes
SHA-256: 6bd32e88eb725ebaf988c893ffe70aa03eac5843699290e2a505a558a35a83aa

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