Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f99bdfadaf389dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 09:48:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 206d0a941cbe5eab5cf1d4237211da6e SHA-1: 25fdfc21b23e606148eeaf3b3a9f8aaea299113e SHA-256: 8f99bdfadaf389ddeeb928d8b666aebe3bd4355b25a5ed39abeca527290fb428
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains a high number of external links, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://mu-rrrc.com/userfiles/file/pibisisube.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/jasiluluvow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccfe11b204853afe68690c765545de20/39675158573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--sanitrprofi-p8a.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/ruxogibirubatuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vpgbddsv4q90q0qifailh9badd/dodolerobopore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synphabase.ch/upload/file/rupasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96c02285971c2794ebf72a936e6b451e/sezuwemofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cb2122e7fcb884f30000c612464638d/20931154609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://screen.by/images/file/84670895110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomorrowhubs.com/upload/users/files/jukurox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m8pf6r28sal87qpsul0646tp8s/kazizuxijavawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f743d36d9cd7054825af8f762c45855/kowixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p18n5cf4krh0srmh8c6901op65/xaxugedafijimaxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/kemopubuwitozokixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f7ecd774e2---judikozatadijavumakivazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnyuanzong.com/uploads/files/20210730203333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da7037d4249---68833213492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebanksunited.com/clients/7/7d/7da19d52c1086e69e61582739ce98a0f/File/27517183456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ramenzoni.eu/userfiles/files/jexusunubaxakononupuwekaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ac03b448b---xesazuzujaxewat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609022d71571a---favimexopepawuzefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liyangah.com/Upload/file/gatib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koala-al.com/d/files/sidafupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbsinternationalschool.org/sbsisnew/userfiles/file/68300958679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=van+valkenburg+network+analysis+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000cc07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC07 18436 bytes
SHA-256: b7c82ef14280c76be13a04027a5b8800d861380261e491af21f5eda175cbe22a
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC4E 11240 bytes
SHA-256: b6dabc2f5a90a9f60b05e10f8f6fbf1867b28291bdba69743656561a981ab91a
font_02_sfnt_off00011673.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11673 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1