Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8dc4499f97eff463…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-06-09 04:12:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 662acd156f7b4a3e57f7f2a26350393c SHA-1: 749d20312c429c0d84a6b60ad2e1799a8ff0e2a3 SHA-256: 8dc4499f97eff46380cbf08330899c56a2a3a4906e39656142432f3d346ba496
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains. These links are likely used to distribute phishing content or further malware payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sat+practice+2+scoring PDF link annotation
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/tofewidorisuviku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0498cf033d592414d1c8114e577f3c7c/62558747709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f1d4c07947e75f92764abe39aea1c35/45742820300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file/%5C/powunizixira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e6ffa2ac3---rafuxiwifapemobozoleliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/73065026177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/blceuufbke64mfh2luq6qdb981/31433325669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ng97jvkigjqsmvt1ijf3278a93/bozusulepafil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b378893c8a7---novaputuremixogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8adogsme8h3sim3fefgpt6n21r/nizokazojetebotexuwutuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/19039552711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpdb.org/userfiles/files/bemofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5047051fd0---selixetulavirapuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banghenails.com/upload/file/manoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energo-winstal.pl/userfiles/file/tipenusemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855d1b0d47a---pelukizojolapugikabovezok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jovol597sj2r7hnrh3uji8urel/sekadixetobona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d47b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD47B 5304 bytes
SHA-256: 7f68917778062eea757f6ef270d60268d4733de59f5be0456c36010a80d449fb
font_01_sfnt_off0000e691.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE691 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 7c4365b019df5ad628070f0ae520c6220982b475181dd83eb3859eab4e7149c9