Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d8dc8502b44a911…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-08-19 14:18:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 5bd7b9bbd2e760661349464af8d19201 SHA-1: 857348598fcc411b19602ced43f7c20d5ed8182c SHA-256: 8d8dc8502b44a911914a1b04f360d8fb0255a95524dbcc72b49a36a16cce4d5b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9933

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fox+national+news+app PDF link annotation
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0pvhsc1fukfer8v67ipt7v36pr/mopugezakukivalefopum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goez1.com/10005001208290177/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jasiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/78702097321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788f6314906---71575450134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160956e75a2534---14299418509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igabana.com/upfolder/e/files/20210725200250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.truca-taoules.com//ckfinder/userfiles/files/kowudoxibaxekojode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/furosebuxenelafog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kll7a086n6lge9a1q19cpfh2p2/74389493536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c169f81c6c21161167b470abdffd0f6/lalubewavaxopibojatuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatexpress.com//upload/userfiles/files/71163702118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/luvizozovafilekewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843423cc123---fimadosojunuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3m2uhlcdcdmu471maec7i7un5m/20685368590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160971f357cb78---rodigiruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motoquadro.de/userfiles/file/25381236241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bafcc8216a3---24861589806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/65686404709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bravo-hk.com/userfiles/file/21414233756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6a165a8ab0e76c3e51ef517621010b5/nibixifixadaliwadiwani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiscconsulting.com/userfiles/file/vivuroda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a1f8e5e0ed---54658875893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoomkish.com/basefile/zoomkishcom/files/61115518030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uco-kampen.com/media/files/ginejepijuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicopetrillo.eu/userfiles/files/dejifojepejajavodadi.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e5d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5D7 16144 bytes
SHA-256: fcca37035df06e555c2991ff65faa0e8497ca6423bee408ebc46b3aef925b516
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB56 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001136d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1136D 10312 bytes
SHA-256: 8ac79fa6a909756066d84048727287a1ff81ba7a8561fe08a9ba42b36191a41b
font_03_sfnt_off00012adb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ADB 17328 bytes
SHA-256: 6f13ccecbbc8d772d4a76b3ed47db9e57d9bc13da8424eb2ca7350f726f2f22c