Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ddd4cfb216521ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-08-13 18:38:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 79b1f9fbbc0ee174b686942b1ab130db SHA-1: 54f3d1aa0dd87c2ffa0b8d6b490c65a1acb3ede8 SHA-256: 8ddd4cfb216521ad824dce852744ca2cbe20e559061e1fcc8373b830d0ae9bbe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to deliver a secondary payload or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

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 http://kozelsk-adm.ru/files/uploads/files/42760395490.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonanbinh.com/userfiles/file/dadetilutovigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbae7fed512718fc43018d057fe3ad02/42853828742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caphegiabao.com/upload/fck/file/75861286936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089abaa6906b---vunubot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37e957f1a53eda9c9e2922908e11ecd8/biwowutim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jnkv819ifvaidur2fdst7rihu4/97981666258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607848aabca49---15778054552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099a0b08069f---gokobefuxilemejejexakapog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2b9481d7a93ecba4911e1fe278be8f6/padowotasubajusag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biometria.pl/photos_fck/file/88628310956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turismopontevedra.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lamezexegomudizamuvusudet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aardbeienfeesten.nl/uploadimages/files/87761591340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/lesamoranegadinaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingcarmotorista.net/uploads/files/vumadevonimenok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uekekb.ru/!upload/files/47063683255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasvaripalmuzeum.hu/upload/file/18510543008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4624e28992---nufefofufofojemewukuroxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bfa009a116---6985705046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbaqfskngn1qi.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/potawamije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.parkwaytransplant.com/media_upload/upload/files/wowekuduketosako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b41f736659588eb1ef851f280ba23aa6/92696546971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926d8984c94---76785538083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmcoverseaspvtltd.com/uploads/files/sifutuxobuxavumiratiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087eb5566944---57525680578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=libro+el+arte+de+la+guerra+precio+peruPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e915.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE915 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 0d4e9bbbee096a58d23556b61d1a8fac3f716765e2fa2c398effd18b19986100
font_01_sfnt_off00010101.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10101 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011912.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11912 16140 bytes
SHA-256: 00b1f632e8afe72716c8bcdb76b7901b56c060d1dc0f96f3f5c1b8373b85735b
font_03_sfnt_off00012e8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E8A 18748 bytes
SHA-256: b8d1ff6ddc3cb5073fcb636e536a087cb216cfca8bca9215a3376b5c6067694a