Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e979014fb78e886…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-13 06:10:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 807ebdec1f892910dd23884b53d2519c SHA-1: 71a16ca4e1666a4423623580599b171f035f9e1b SHA-256: 8e979014fb78e886f2af8bae65e1b05ff9e26301d9661958ae95a362a4c82049
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pubg+lite+beta+new+update+2021 PDF link annotation
    • https://orcasproje.com/userfiles/file/tapez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khotelmarket.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210910_7B0C1798C715239E.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songhong.info/userfiles/file/xijibudoxelefagaxono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.groupe-coelho.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/momatorapunuguxojovokavuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoangmailogistics.com/asset/site/files/529670112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/varutusajamemapiseserezuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatagz.com/uploadfile/files/15074692421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/75514713454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alanaf.ru/userfiles/files/nevemizav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b1hachaaarf28i30kc4qqnen9/79653101978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insight-assessment.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lutoxavabiwemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dawahcity.com/userfiles/file/12576627788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://champagne-marc-chauvet.com/images/files/wuwimepowudejufiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gruppocreta.com/userfiles/files/63459861157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laboratorioshamalab.com/userfiles/file/furinuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e98ce3ef81---21332361468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gnatowski.pl/attachments/file/dulogibevokobudulujiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniquecharacters.com/upload/files/gixinunekamikowisubana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elverum-revmatiker.no/images/file/47426048629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c50574e88a0de8a7f435b3fd64b0f325/66038910786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161344e8e69fba---94159623859.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_off0000c465.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC465 19964 bytes
SHA-256: 4d1bce10061bf995fe9c3ea75197c1c43294faf0c7937e5d5b285f4b80f19163
font_01_sfnt_off0000f92e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF92E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011145.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11145 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 62092a8c2d202f5bb06e27474b0e6fe78d2e1220b561f758b1175e8843b1b7f7