Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d039d6fc776181b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-09-23 21:56:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: b40075b48e0b0e80abf9284c658f4f63 SHA-1: 1400db52e6d77dd4f9b83caac7235baeefd02a2a SHA-256: 8d039d6fc776181b7d7f592fed34761b45e2f5c006cc4a405da6d2af7aee8b41
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farms, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. Although no executable scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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=not+another+teenage+movie+full+movie+online PDF link annotation
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfe0be26434bcac8f4576846711a6fea/wunetobewesikezuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.it/uploads/ck_editor/files/4201642370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newabel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98005595588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siamintertrade.com/file_media/file_image/file/40637067448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konferencii.org/web/uploads/assets/file/18535028746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dreamscapes.ca/dream_scapes/userfiles/files/46211504874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolaykanal.com/userfiles/files/63060126556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emotionalgift.youngzonejewelry.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nojisaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlicentral.com/images/authors/file/29488445671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art-lamps-rali.eu/files/file/narowewuwoguzuredizute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hieuchuan.com/upload/files/rifaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duocvinhkim.com/userfiles/file/wewozebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161401e7c959dd---buvub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgrdpandher.com/userfiles/file/remewaxisafutixefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio1bet.net/contents/files/79545667288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/486b3a783ee5fc542c5d919dae014fa3/kavirigireki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms2oke.com/contents/files/dilezakifofuvuxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gencatakan.com/upload/file/17425429161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salamino.pl/userfiles/file/96706931327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613839378dc0b---21164431735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7166867.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24036088462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinemidias.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lotoxibazuzuxadegobogixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferropula.hr/files/sosolax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferramentabelleggia.it/public/file/zokilomojoserususip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodlife88.com/uploads/files/fowowijovodega.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_off0000c6ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6EC 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 4cae591cfbbb18d4632acefa8d0cff838ef51b1fff3eb03414992b01eb7def1e
font_01_sfnt_off0000df14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF14 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f726.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF726 16428 bytes
SHA-256: fe3f16f0ef0774a37f9eeb50cecaeac6b11087a9088a2ab84361c7a9930fe90e