Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d8bf385736e4f0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-10-08 20:10:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 13bc4efea8ea447880dcdc9a8cc253eb SHA-1: 6a4964f3870c036d806f1ef7cde55be849d843d8 SHA-256: 8d8bf385736e4f0bf8d0c120d388e5f31e09f62b44bed59d5053427c8da15faa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The heuristic 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' specifically highlights the use of compromised WordPress upload storage for hosting malicious PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/daviwapilupomila.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://larrysiegellaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/64689226417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-park.es/img/uploads/files/83707403123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16156b56c83628---vilapozuwitib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lex.tj/img/file/bagakalulorefiwulutoxinoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lasermedia.cn/userfiles/file/fakuzegowinabajukavute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chameleoncoupons.com/adgprocessing/uploads/files/zoliwogevafuwipar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.firstpages.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/84339088857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congnghiepxd204.vn/upload/files/16590044667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handinks.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/97125107553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tktravelkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210927_DA09C44FF16970CA.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2017.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98907127302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalsocialwlefaresummit.com/app/webroot/uploads/ckuploads/files/96523978213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bancodevida.com/bancodevida/admin/images/image/file/limixamerapemozegiruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geojeoceanhotel.com/userfiles/file/20210925210023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biplano.eu/userfiles/files/99053919802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yjccnc.com/upload/files/dezamagugin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fertilizerproductionprocess.com/d/files/guligegoxafufijabuboro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anshan56.cn/userfiles/file/16312407791137144576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bmw-zona.ru/uploads/file/45885383162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regaluxiluminacion.com/uploads/assets/file/12798619743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53073285ae42e9a486c689c31b8533bb/46570366528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atrsara.ir/resource/files/tonobadizumesagaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615937be0f250---39305120135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lor-rostov.su/userfiles/files/saxikotoniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=harrison+frame+and+axlePDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000e601.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE601 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 5b7956aa15b1253331b1a0ef1cf07914e02d603f48248be395ca98766b7f5423
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDD2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000115e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115E4 19712 bytes
SHA-256: d434e553b0b94f4efa5b0543c10af01fdccd4f12ef6299730dc2d2949648bce1