Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ed018b30984712b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-22 16:01:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f854817bd112dfbc4cc44d8a25318489 SHA-1: f1bf3c0cbd36935d17022e358c2faa2da7bd22bd SHA-256: 8ed018b30984712b5cf5e2b6bdeb8af3c5bf99c1ec151152da0abbfae6c03bfb
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. One URL directly uses an IP address, indicating a potential attempt to bypass domain-based defenses.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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 http://hidramaco.com/files/files/wajosaxijob.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://northwestconvention.cz/data/files/59050456279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.first-classlogistics.com/image/upload/File/puvepazofosakigopedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://microcement.ua/userfiles/file/52992783009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://next-engineering.com/userfiles/files/nutuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtrak.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59947703538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonerihned.cz/userfiles/file/70837512797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunexim.dascalita.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/42275306173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136910187afb---vifojinawodofojo.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://advairtech.eu/assets/userfiles/file/vepalapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.info/files/files/53344390685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gonguyenkhoi.vn/upload/files/warebudajetajukasewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olgapolyakova.de/files/files/nojolez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spbmworld.com/anaeter_capital/siteadmin/userfiles/files/jeniwipopifawekiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132f21685995---73305048957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somkuthyoptika.hu/editor_up/gazavoxisudaxunirimina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deepex.hu/hirek/files/wejevokopixugasajikawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614131e25bed7---18246124714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankaraeksioglu.com/resimler/files/50734871827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lechioutdoor.com/userfiles/file/63834128792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archinfo.ru/uploads/file/zulurumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koetec.com/home/~ptow/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83213313801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zdravka.hlpr.hr/userfiles/file/65070990976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca8c476d29c85dcbda2da005a78bd70e/76913760516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymsoft.us/aym_image/files/61636476843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fceresources.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/106005931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=linking+words+with+sentencesPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000d750.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD750 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 1989cfb81566eb4f60b005b1b0b874bf4bd9663c553ea707bfea368fa60c8b47
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF3C 17768 bytes
SHA-256: 1ae140c8b18230831f7ced1e17ba71d3ebad03d42f1f4ad65e5f0337d4678a8b
font_02_sfnt_off00011cde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CDE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1