Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8debd69570e04a96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-10-04 19:22:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fc5e5733b913d9276289cc0e221d96da SHA-1: 78f2eafb3c8c66bf752a816d0e23973afbb60ff2 SHA-256: 8debd69570e04a9688257d0023fb106db5e53887c260f8e0ab15734a7a1118f2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=join4films+bollywood+2021
    • http://www.gabrielamaciel.net/images/content/file/86344277250.pdf
    • http://csc0451.com/userfiles/file/20210920070351_agyf94.pdf
    • https://venus-forever.com/image/files/sadetitezunez.pdf
    • http://dd-eng.com/files/files/didilonapepozogilin.pdf
    • https://almavilag.hu/files/files/96546759830.pdf
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d945401f363ab5f9074df09609534dd0/wowirupugiparus.pdf
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613920b46acfc---dakunexo.pdf
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/kirimibi.pdf
    • http://floridadressyourhome.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/88109596912.pdf
    • https://morganmethod.com/ci/userfiles/files/bemuxoborosi.pdf
    • https://coastalholidayproperty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48078731922.pdf
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16156cd1b71e5d---57546798964.pdf
    • https://dunakanyarfesto.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tusevukubitabadotoxevep.pdf
    • http://kientrucsangtrong.com/plus/files/tokinanitop.pdf
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c1f06093f95b8348b46cfba9ea34b1a/34921787927.pdf
    • https://safarekhoob.ir/basefile/safarekhoobir/files/26236913208.pdf
    • http://infinity-pro.ru/userfiles/file/68872978873.pdf
    • http://vectorma.ru/uploads/assets/file/xokik.pdf
    • https://sikanderajam.com/Robinson/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87974492265.pdf
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b65f450e01---10862094913.pdf
    • http://vouchertiket.com/airplane/ckeditor/uploads/files/xajavegopu.pdf
    • http://polipack.ru/content/file/60781133383.pdf
    • http://mycoapaisyl.com/webimages/files/resen.pdf
    • http://venkateshservices.com/uploads/fewagafidagemovinixaxunuj.pdf
    • http://unibeauty.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tufivudasirorovogu.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f320.bin
dd625e544dc547a625b6df4dac284393b5563a1c46dc8d9031edc6b31b28e6e5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF320 18252 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012237.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12237 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013a4e.bin
330027d80fe1f5b1a4157fb0951c589e7a69fb932c8b7e7679f4c6fb1fba8bca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A4E 10728 bytes