Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e8ab2c8aab99277…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-20 12:09:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 76799364f2d249e64218aed09e69ada8 SHA-1: 6bff32de575546e827a5e48583215404327cb017 SHA-256: 8e8ab2c8aab9927726fc42f5385760f663d9cdecdba94f18d3af024ac7c11c13
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=programming+with+c+byron+gottfried+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://xn----7sbjvweekof5d.xn--p1ai/files/files/jojatuxoxezubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xeroxexpres.cz/userfiles/file/durikoworamex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tutek.eu/userfiles/file/vasolarop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biomedchita.ru/imeg_master/file/11053028497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assotechne.eu/userfiles/files/13477169082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglenhospital.com/UserFiles/File/88824986543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polipack.ru/content/file/87187587040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newdesert.pl/userfiles/file/74543396042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/smj3urhge7u9iflg5mupu23q23/penelegawosudesixosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deewanalarab.com/up_imgs/janukitazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://186086.com/upload/files/gibujeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujiya-la.com/uploads/files/68787791999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/84153876503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winterwonderlandzundert.nl/uploadimages/files/36484177668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marbletreasures.com/uploads/image/files/ximebililavox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srilangkapools.com/contents/files/60975719800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://membranekeyboard.pl/_data/file/xafubisamili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e98c79b2fb---96072904791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cateringkieuan.com/uploads/userfiles/file/bugokifidolemedoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotostudiovaccari.it/userfiles/files/pijuporatirulowijuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kindspring.org/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuxafogup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cultureresortpokhara.com/assets/userfiles/files/jezanajobupelaburewibowox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hilanguage-com-tw.triangle-design.com/files/lutujolavenipudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161465d6b7e83d---bufudafewigotulibanu.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_off0000d280.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD280 11196 bytes
SHA-256: 93fd480eb67d47ae0a511528de0fd4b131132fe9621612d63195fe9c74e9f2b5
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC29 17748 bytes
SHA-256: 4f720e06d3435847a1eaaadd81afb2398ccedfe259c0932adbe924e959c88b7d
font_02_sfnt_off00011a6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A6E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1