Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d475a4360fc9a9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 09:36:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 3ebdfc8aac9be0ecad65ed8960cb3eee SHA-1: 41f79867b0d90646308f3968dd2dd108ad0700f4 SHA-256: 8d475a4360fc9a9a3e7028d38722f53f14eed2ce329b871d4444a4456417d5a3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or trojan delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=structural+fabrication+technology+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://quickvideo.nl/userfiles/file/wamurejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoangnhataudio.vn/media/files/52928672346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dungcumaymoc.com/Images_upload/files/48450644107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/userfiles/file/defozijozexidizugawom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoset66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95907106158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e60f8e6e07961dc33eeb87d01784ece1/56199799069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosiciliani.eu/userfiles/files/89835966487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotwresort.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/padareluvawivaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://net-work.cz/data/file/gupugogezirubejitofegaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maciejabramowicz.pl/upload/files/file/92536651819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalcircle.club/userfiles/file/22239920710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sola-brothers.com/userfiles/file/84206470772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ac8439c445---53535844111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210505123732749755914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partnyor.az/userfiles/file/3495865228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/fobirixifereni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ei6gtnmp78a3bvqt11052dgjkp/28614886545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.deuba.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n5hmmcj0jvp7b024f4vvj9m6q6/60180222919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aqsclimited.com/EditorImages/file/2481078570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160736d8271e14---17414219802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interior-mark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dowipig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077bca038c7f---8590637819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arunimaflavours.com/userfiles/file/pifosivelifogeved.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_off0000ba7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA7D 11160 bytes
SHA-256: 086c4bd77d386604bab2007f925d69ecbfe6180b1ee7fb0dff0a19b7cf3b3ed7
font_01_sfnt_off0000d411.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD411 16040 bytes
SHA-256: 644f27574ddd4d9e4f0c249d68b669f26de1e6722a247057da5578d6c14311d6
font_02_sfnt_off0000fcff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCFF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1