Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8eaa4e18a60dd6b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 12:19:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4c0d77dd3301f9837ac0ad8dc1f28092 SHA-1: a2dc02f1c5383d2b1e4d6059dab692a506b74afa SHA-256: 8eaa4e18a60dd6b3c275ae5dbf983c5fba1a2b64b57b3d423cc0cb56e28ca0f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is flagged as a link farm on disposable hosting, indicating a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, with the document likely serving as a lure to exploit clients via the linked resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=osssc+junior+clerk+question+paper+pdf
    • http://quaint-house.com/xazujopakiguli.pdf
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/begiwakafipudip.pdf
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4cb9aed34a1c6078e1e618224585fde/16204734552.pdf
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rk1lemtcc21g1nd2kjl0bh48dl/3403509024.pdf
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160989ad233095---pifevozib.pdf
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04d4145c8dda957e541a8c74e78436a4/47511990866.pdf
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vdi62hc404t771ofn4b6pgqskg/77433619661.pdf
    • http://montagnobozzone.it/userfiles/files/dujurozixovozufaliso.pdf
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a61299d4c764e91ce1ae0c408b23d89/devobudejeg.pdf
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a5bacdff6---jikoge.pdf
    • https://reparation-mobile.net/userfiles/file/somexanugexajedidunom.pdf
    • http://uelzecht.lu/userfiles/files/81086635293.pdf
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de70f8bbe00---zojosika.pdf
    • http://architettorobertafasola.eu/userfiles/files/sopixuxamive.pdf
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e09f3559a90---rukilozoninum.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161166b618034b---figawajagetabazeka.pdf
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a994564416e---74965741538.pdf
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/75916335817.pdf
    • http://richardchong.com/userfiles/files/rasekifisebetalogekem.pdf
    • http://dragonspond.com/uploads/files/goxujoli.pdf
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ppkrfuqargltquiealsnftrd72/64223836097.pdf
    • https://www.americansummercamps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073c20a47cec---49616723079.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_off0000d367.bin
863aff952f4fe2f2ecbfc1844b01a354bb3dfdbbdb0c9b3ab5a59ba13be4f198
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD367 11108 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed39.bin
a8aa5eec959675d9c0f6e828d203cbd9be5de00d3338e4e31b44879a7ece5be2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED39 17672 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011ac2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AC2 16792 bytes