Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e366ee676ea96f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 05:26:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: fa7cee538b983265a7ded495a8db8ee6 SHA-1: 2517f46adebadadb19e1a7e23c64b5f7b341566e SHA-256: 8e366ee676ea96f53c7efb2274c0e01b276ffe359dfaa81a3526c0cf48517fa0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, preventing a deeper analysis of its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=deflected+succession+worksheet+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/49360681644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dvt1pgl5ai90cdfud67g4eiift/74071659555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seibyou-koujien.com/files/files/83101394468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1fd1b78d55---taxiwuzosimib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billagelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/lodit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/12985761740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3220275b6c---legisupodukigub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airelimpio.mx/img/editor/file/nazubisuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vpn-solutions.com.pe/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zadisovulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometramaurotozzi.it/userfiles/files/75317091193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ff-engineering.com/userfiles/files/56987423884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfflvu0iqruheu5ctcu8o6edeb/kelaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.net/contents//files/luvokenubigur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608704b3754f2---43524694554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75uj8306t9jrqlsqncsvif56g7/66943336333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sexualaufklaerung-schule.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kogupogiminir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cb7cf7a219d1f4790a4529f13143f04/36814144623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwynva.com/clients/d/de/de91e19d235d8a3764238851c6b73f99/File/nuletezuxesagamovave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/214a898ca71728d5e38b6b0ef5e24a89/90400665202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dewalt-naradi.cz/media/upload/editor/file/46994559371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwishop.hu/file/58107628687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestopc.it/upload/file/34438418127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkwwta.org/userfiles/dopoxevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76f0beec299c9fdd83d992efcfc3134d/54637148653.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_off0000d7d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000efeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFEB 16600 bytes
SHA-256: 40b319d185c3872d36506e85bca8e2bc8e8bd8f7ae222e5dfeadc6b5a14f3054
font_02_sfnt_off00011acb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ACB 10852 bytes
SHA-256: d296c0bd4d41ddca6fe61d8bd0c5d7ea2641de0433049b454ba028435dfe00aa