Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e8dc8dcff74c6b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.7 KB Created: 2021-09-14 20:59:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 932033a66de8ec3d68d13622e37ad8f6 SHA-1: 8544e37e7628707deb4a7de763fd8e39196a6e85 SHA-256: 8e8dc8dcff74c6b57d179605b328ace36f7b0157988d594bcb07c29d11dc47f7
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. Heuristics also indicate the presence of urgency and download lures, reinforcing the phishing or malware download attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dungeon+hunter+4+android+gameplay PDF link annotation
    • http://gocchame.vn/app/webroot/img/uploads/files/65324305645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malovanesklomh.cz/images/file/bokotudobovilov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avon-bratislava.sk/files/files/dipivaxilozofurorevokov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safedoorsystems.com/cmsimages/file/mirapesojawoxizunajakotat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleshuzatabc.hu/files/file/49765736566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leadingedgecorporate.com/user_images/file/rezojomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nickelsgrafikdesign.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wewigefivup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bedrucken24.de/userfiles/file/lufenuluxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131cf339a083---54537235134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rusepress.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/lananowugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irinka.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9368617044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uds-myanmar.com/image/upload/File/tisufej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32892506377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekorepetycje.eu/Upload/file/33425486168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.temaricerca.com/entry2013new/admindia/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4260006009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rainbowfurnitures.com/files/files/dotutin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dataction.org/demo/dataction/media/fununovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceramicasvillaflor.cl/UserFiles/File/21829880515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132861aebd31---fopadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telek-trans.hu/editor_up/nijururaronobuneloxirab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mueblesdepladur.es/1/userfiles/file/76702541947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campermagazine.tv/public/file/24701209866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sasolution.kr/userfiles/file/tijegisat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rv0rs5q1re6dn23svsgj3eobd4/meluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingprocess.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/5301744467.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_off00010fbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FBB 20036 bytes
SHA-256: 9097f1199ad85f90fa6b6281e0bcb54e430367deead72dae2ce1728a47be0140
font_01_sfnt_off00014442.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14442 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015c59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15C59 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 9e78ea5cc8809c9b5570bc6e8e93fb9074937395c598a4376756803f48e92926