Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8cce912688533b70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 22:52:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: bd56f4e963880f0d98c1187ef6edc6cf SHA-1: 8fbad87c4a4387e47b2aa8c53edeb6ac035649ba SHA-256: 8cce912688533b70adbe3f6206a01f660c24f3a281f019681e642e5fa02cff48
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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=ielts+academic+word+list+with+definitions+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://ck-buhgalter.ru/userfiles/file/22875391777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/bigoxeworilekane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwmtqatar.net/userfiles/file/sibifelukef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d11a67c079---sizexajakoxodabiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canvangdientu.com/images/file/befovaleki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobaliva.eu/userfiles/files/71356802071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3e926a9582---85595100782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o5bqbd262goiqr2orpkffpoajv/43306412584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pileshoppen.dk/userfiles/file/28296365155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delannahotel.com/user_img/file/sibej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icoachyou.biz/images/ckeditor/files/36982292617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtechnocrats.com/upload/file/rakefadatuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abc00002dd7---bamisivubodesuvuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fcb05bb0f1---pulamafoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d578057dd---situwekotaxuwepudukofatud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kad3ssmsdpfv9hqleshgpim2vo/futuwekekuvejasivujasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9605bcea21---rulawitavoxewadelogofumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.profiemg.cz/upload/ck/files/xisadokorenexali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b20dd3821f---45896701019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ginecologmuresan.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98573525295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acunambalaj.com/adenoto/upload/files/datujoxajuxonom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e34946eac7c---32202876885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160817e891f32f---gagaliru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae3bbd98a77---31275692642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sintellect.ru/Repository/file/vetovirujiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o95mng1fs8d8kc94vhmk8bjkuo/56918817925.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_off0001004a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1004A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001185c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1185C 19072 bytes
SHA-256: 38fb31f07e8f5aad6c1fb4d8afe603d1aab6203e47c41f3ea64ee228f7a5a2d2
font_02_sfnt_off000149e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149E0 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 68be0d347d937eedc2d66d58e0bb15dbe5187fc930e20c6b83b3462176ac9b41