Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f598f702efd2683…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-09-12 03:22:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 67a6a613fc5753ee9cd7f2b220361284 SHA-1: 5fabe4fbba5e578d00d8319cae579003048e66ee SHA-256: 8f598f702efd2683bc97787e7ae37856490bf618de52c42ce29a1f18f8d4c9b3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute traffic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting the analysis to the URL structure and heuristic findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 http://winkeleninzundert.nl/uploadimages/files/robubetegojazubapeludax.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dailythang.com/userfiles/files/luvuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eac7cb0214---tezusokuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prolocolidodisavio.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fazuvudanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electrodomesticaruano.com/images/ckfinder/files/gabesowekaviwoxazosulobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chipublichouse.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/monupuwisekodupujanadoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf63e11ab8481b94fb23265a00be2c43/52947139197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contelex.it/userfiles/files/45182215928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eltprof.ru/userfiles/file/paxukatujizakezepudaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d45479345d---zokix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mbzl-pro.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/43850692126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careersourcechipola.com/files/public/23535804407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thechitay.com/uploads/userfiles/file/44393659326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139b7c0e191f---tulajapaxukuzepog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalthailand.com/images/uploads/ckfinder/files/18657419166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1613237327d10b---ratekumunutesebijisuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banktapeunadana.com/tapeunadana/bank2/admin/userfiles/file/varatuveriwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citysoupsbellevue.com/uploads/files/lotajozeduzaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stealthwindow.tw/uploads/files/202109070352363041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avvocatoandreabruschi.it/userfiles/files/zemojesiwiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a7a1aa5e9eddb9693b0d5ec2d5f5a56/mutepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimobertoarchitetto.com/userfiles/files/30039515421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucg-eg.com/userfiles/file/51896439424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/14891909848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=memories+song+download+mp3+pagalworld+mp4PDF 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_off0000c216.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC216 17172 bytes
SHA-256: 3d93f68bb50ffab17fd0c29dd96d96c5670b4bc4f5908e76b173bd68aa84e9cf
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE71 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010688.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10688 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 47f11efb12eeb705e27d8fe4c11d89459f4e8460a0982a490369c6a2b97fd7e6