Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8efd116668a366de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-08-20 13:59:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: aa7c6131c07f2c1332815d5047bfc0de SHA-1: e076ccb0c8ef9e3ef4d2dd1ca17f09fd52d69ffb SHA-256: 8efd116668a366deebbd222c4b62d89a0f9edc8a3a4488126efed2718142bb7f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of these links strongly indicates an attempt to redirect users to external, potentially harmful, websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://nhatrangpalace.vn/app/webroot/upload/files/muket.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nyett.hk/uploads/news/files/novarateguvunivalekexeduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070e608b1214---84348274501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smn1970.com/clients/d/d4/d44d2684521ac238e4bdef02d06179b0/File/77472166232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d158e4e593e6c591c0dc2f9290810dcd/52155249474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehs1958.org/clients/73155/File/34258973360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e833531e43---xemodokolidamexer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161115b525454d---94581591186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cambresisemploi.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nutapesitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611321d8741f9---30150639485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinarwaja.com/account/files/ketovuvebosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulf-rope.com/images/bulk_images/files/vilix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lsbwg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210629/1420278816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lultsped5uj7i8h10nhige4l4d/58139359989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d913a3630f3---mutebifiduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c52930d3332a64c6f947a70116171841/futizoduwof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drsaman.com/files/94397053460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/95067396981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa18afc76e74ba761da1866362a06e22/dupekakipuvevog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagodkaprzedszkole.pl/userfiles/file/82885358899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160817335392c4---16692970561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/974497df64ef4f1f9daaf6c06b7ba65f/95797707923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://textingrights.com/userfiles/files/63249881084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wskinbody.com/data/boardData/files/18627762043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=tecnicas+proje%C3%A7%C3%A3o+astral+pdfPDF 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_off0000f4ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4EA 19116 bytes
SHA-256: 8f7650107ad6835d1b1699e6c55e105c3772124fec896d4c37bc5b34736be318
font_01_sfnt_off00012376.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12376 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013b8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B8D 11168 bytes
SHA-256: 917fefed4060072a59ba82af12e034e026acb5f903d682d857c1608fbce6343c