Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8fc2065cb66a596a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-06-13 23:51:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: cca79b92384a8bcc13cdd058edc04c8f SHA-1: a7ef092e385e103ee9d41479ed97dfc5e60642b6 SHA-256: 8fc2065cb66a596a8ae09a9944b743b83d73207bfa7fc723acfcdb048694839d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to exploiting users through these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL findings are sufficient to classify this as a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sat+2017+august+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://wooshin.kr/uploaded/file/95073584360bbe04384ecb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leadershipcareer.kr/fckeditor/_upload/file/niduxarazatasibejabut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e634360017---tazeziteladofaremege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afayl.com/userfiles/file/jevelulafugagajokatezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/213936f96314149b5aced35bae20dd51/pidirivurap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a14b704f32028ceb33a2756074c096d/vegadimew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf49181c4c---72992698364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sptatsmrocvnc2scov4uqe3165/godirosizanoligipalosona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staceyasp.com/UserFiles/file/25283535115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/lojabutifujivevet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubietelbar.hu/uploadfile/19499191448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803cad80084---dafunadaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c4de8205b0---bupumanolipiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermogroup.ru/uploads/files/84294674688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decamiones.com/userfiles/file/44935540558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdec0978629eb0ef65d987d3852e382b/nogififokawikomaluwaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e461.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE461 5420 bytes
SHA-256: a5f06e570b384fd0a5ad2f14413ed1712fd26029eeb08dd3655e27916cca5a65
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6F9 9992 bytes
SHA-256: 0ef796bd1ee8c91e3c2261e8a332b0c60278c26499083c2ead02db2a9ca67962