Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f5f15daa08843f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.6 KB Created: 2021-08-05 19:27:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3be7da8cee53f832ec54eb52a5ade92e SHA-1: 657ef04c278c5e1030b9460e105ddff2090cd118 SHA-256: 8f5f15daa08843f52d1fa2fa1faf16d6d52cde3954faa66f3ef3e36072fc13fc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gta+4+android+beta+version+download+obb PDF link annotation
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8942332fbedd306d248c774840f902c5/98965213285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubaimotorcycletours.com/uploaded_images/files/90393985691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/his270s9pretjgstl2vl497eiv/1694153105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamokugrofa.sk/admin/fckeditor/file/fuvofubolugor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solamsys.com/userData/board/file/livujuvewukote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d36e2aa293a---nevedoraziromo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f170c0660993f13e81b807059b19c3d8/82626221717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irths.com/upload_files/files/75361220355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rund.cz/UserFiles/File/jopeboretaxudelijopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a092cd754c---parijepuwuvibefewejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/todanozepozebevojewur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonorganica.ru/upload/files/97532997445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8177f4c857a064e7e4d2fa83842ea201/81632035984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afce86648fb---tutavesulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a995ada78---19246643971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nova-auto.com/upload/45993505333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://filetorme.com/upload/files/97542511960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nikacarpet.com/My_Project/Hamishe_bahar/ahar_img/files/nufut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semut73.com/contents//files/64753301383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brtim.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/wexipuviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5a3445f977---dosituxuderemememot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topcudental.com/img/userfiles/files/29918653451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lexcyberia.com/userfiles/files/75163369605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saharun.org/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69242550891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b28ba1b2e54963bc7987853c68b6da6/1139212434.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_off000105d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105D6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011ded.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DED 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 7e090bf024f8b44c26760aab70883371de5ab68e0a519b70c625b1261e50a587
font_02_sfnt_off00013688.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13688 17340 bytes
SHA-256: edf60ba4e7e0a88f2a05027bd2c498b126287c85f2ab07a1f1f9381288f8440f