Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8efcb32c4319ae28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-13 04:05:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d4d1151367532d677add090e900505ab SHA-1: e2821e1c15f62026f8c2bbe8ca4b75d69e0c115a SHA-256: 8efcb32c4319ae28b118259ff49e0f5c095e809084f2fda410e5d709cf945365
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be associated with compromised content management systems or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a link farm designed to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=poweramp+vs+playerpro PDF link annotation
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/34083177089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theelementrama9.com/userfiles/files/89843989340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerritos.songhakbbq.com/uploads/files/87061166942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613864a27aceb---15187875375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesterteto.hu/userfiles/file/19609405811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7aa7c483f675d5e862c0c6ae22361bf/49717948920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dharmapuridiocese.com/svnprojects/DHD/Source/images/files/10046662532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familiegravesen.dk/userfiles/file/nijogukesovuroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/tubowuzupamini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://himalayakebab.irafbrothers.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/jopimupasewix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalitelivideoizle.com/resimler/files/tujipizit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proektasis.gr/admin/spaw2/uploads/files/16957688935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nceed.kr/pds/userfiles/files/dasoxatilotov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bednidhitraders.com/userfiles/file/pevarokapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whuntex.ru/userfiles/file/15852362178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-apartments.pl/data/pages/talexipuxutuderowokevumaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietnam-intraco.com/webroot/img/files/joburozevelelelivax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velapower.com/glwh/UploadFile/file/2021090203380273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pypconsultores.mx/userfiles/file/66681226585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seattleteriyaki3.com/uploads/files/79646238061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://milsagliksen.org/upload/ckfinder/files/diwigenijobowetusum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitpuertorico.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sesotixibiputukijepililid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tofuyatogo.com/uploads/files/pokusutiseko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isitekmuhendislik.com/userfiles/file/79596173362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunwisechem.com/Uploadfiles/files/61537647367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qq2l7nq9g3gdouvd96euipe7e4/19963352690.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_off0000e27d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE27D 10388 bytes
SHA-256: 7a9a16d25a346065a37b5606bc1584ceb60d692f29be443f4150581e70c3e1f3
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA1D 18756 bytes
SHA-256: f19cfe51a8ea93454391d40d18bffd8bc17820401c93e9ea26316266066b24e3
font_02_sfnt_off000129fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129FB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1