Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d274f45de52c633…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 23:09:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 83427d018c9537e454101954f64874e0 SHA-1: 7947a5c181f697dabbbb6fa6ee0e4d9af0bfe996 SHA-256: 8d274f45de52c633cde90987af38885421e1e0d871f6044e97a88f668ac9f35c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely using a spearphishing attachment as the initial vector.

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=piano+sheet+music+river+flows+in+you+pdf
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bc795f788439fc18f2461b98514cba8/mobefebipow.pdf
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04438864b77a1e0c828b62cdf350a3b0/57440044778.pdf
    • http://www.flamanville-76.fr/upload/file/tikekinekakugurez.pdf
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l9a5l66enimhcuasvdf04gee90/53475191375.pdf
    • https://www.artikel238.nl/emmwebbit/resources/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27317113720.pdf
    • http://ciskmv.com/css/file/jaxagalapezobapad.pdf
    • https://healthcareadvisorsgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aq3h3sg5paof16ogcaod274i65/51596884228.pdf
    • https://cepatdaftargroup2.com/contents//files/13460217196.pdf
    • https://clubsecurite.fr/webroot/upload/files/28644160030.pdf
    • http://simp-q.ru/userfiles/file/86536840611.pdf
    • http://gistfamilyreunion.com/clients/8/8c/8cbf0a40baaab9dd4734ff2cdbb1e120/File/nabubogefiterigolulix.pdf
    • http://vietthanhstone.com/images/news/file/vamumokunelodifudod.pdf
    • https://tyko.pl/userfiles/file/58243121733.pdf
    • http://peaceinsrilanka.lk/userfiles/file/42573831893.pdf
    • http://studiolegalebisantis.it/userfiles/files/24093741429.pdf
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/ditijedoxote.pdf
    • https://equipelec.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41853247200.pdf
    • http://bjaimama.com/data/upload/2021/07/file/202107140635088837.pdf
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd430f8c83a---2895104719.pdf
    • http://temple.mo/userfiles/file/25341398627.pdf
    • https://gsm.company/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xunerawuramirotizozet.pdf
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a35451e3a---rusanatixafewigoroxo.pdf
    • https://atphp.ch/userfiles/file/50437242803.pdf
    • http://s250801404.onlinehome.fr/img/uploaded/file/zutozoruzikofewe.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c2b8.bin
94a4784fa0ec18f7acb768a41ddfbd11962be77173351df980a05293b87c48db
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2B8 17100 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee8c.bin
cb8c05a5072796fd254772a03d7347f5a7482c7192519ac5cbaae15d554ab497
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE8C 11252 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000108d3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108D3 16792 bytes