Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f2dca1a8856e699…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-08-20 11:50:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 17c09afb645ec64a9c0315ba33a53938 SHA-1: bec9913a7c56309706f0fc3ee48cebe18a7c5633 SHA-256: 8f2dca1a8856e6999558566e381e5cd2bf854bbaebadd9a8f3070a3b1aea7468
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nsict+berthing+report+today PDF link annotation
    • http://boston.pl/fck_pliki/file/69467273642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-domrep.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78273337438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pepinieres-gey.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25101632419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba87fd6384b---durojefajukas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a89a663f3cf6dc04b7071883fe44560/4214322775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noahmission.org/dataroom/file/32744251031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leasingtowers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10426064137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allnatureint.com/userfiles/file/58352503499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/533454bbf2271dae9030c3db6fbcd538/nazijerilikesavawomufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2e3284abbe---jekawanumekalutozurexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giverny-bkk.com/upload/files/mimuwadixabulir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/56513768645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banphimchuot.com/userfiles/file/gomulujefaxitodupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7f699d86227fdcb663cc4b1f7eb8c56/35534669683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o6gkjpi25lergniuj6llveg8tn/10427682378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sovaimm.it/userfiles/files/53672384555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjjiffy.com/upload/16570784812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oresteruggiero.com/userfiles/files/zutudusawev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paillasse.hu/userfiles/file/xonimub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/84439258504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakaryakasaplarodasi.org/userfiles/file/4236282950.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_off0000daac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAAC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2BE 16772 bytes
SHA-256: f2b3dd43e9986e4c8dcefb640c4fdab9f11cd83c1abc4b39a6860699b1085aa8
font_02_sfnt_off00011e66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E66 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 239addc6f9d462709ec160cbd4ac807a21ca12c916964aff01da24157e292036