Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8dcc22356c90008f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-12 03:46:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 6ddce914c236fb5284679cb4132ae234 SHA-1: eded691d7e4183811d021f3a7f6fda19beb89d54 SHA-256: 8dcc22356c90008f1ef2428466838f4cb49ca9cf2973e3ed9e92bc7c8e8e637e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' further supports this. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the PDF structure implies an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=montserrat+font+android PDF link annotation
    • http://www.gonouvellezelande.com/files/gexifikoxatobup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://change4best.ru/upload/file/6660003595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbivesinhanhhuy.com/asset/files/37449193044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yocarbroker.com/upload/ckfinder/files/15508451076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://termosystem.pl/userfiles/file/54165157854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istanbulballoons.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91962342896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moje-stranky.eu/userfiles/file/30500982504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thomas-zigon.de/images/file/kenivizoxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pijntherapie.be/uploads/files/64900798916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signexpowholesale.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/jilarideseweleril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131436ae58d7---71660317808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8d3d49694ffaf299fa9a5ab03cf6f91/pamidal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://everestart.com/images/stories/file/66984192643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anoh.net/pds/userfiles/files/vixijotawilegemunus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canxetaianhduc.com/images/file/54633711540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motolargo.pl/userfiles/file/14122221848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sirindhorn.net/upload/File/27461791545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topspeed4wd.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wariwosujavepaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dce4ce6a003eebd3937d8694d65eaae5/31207625429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahceneryaman.net/public/content-images/files/zirodetokudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.com/userfiles/file/kunixamegene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hamayeshniroo.com/shop/file/wagibud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marjoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/54495498514.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_off0000def1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEF1 18440 bytes
SHA-256: 5ca6b4bf81e0cf62417c3006ce95b421a8373d786557793ca805e37d1596eacd
font_01_sfnt_off00010f58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F58 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001276f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1276F 10292 bytes
SHA-256: 370eba22b57019ba292208ea01767860336f4cebc40e757d2ada1cc7373676fd