Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8fe048db074303da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.0 KB Created: 2021-08-09 14:52:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 11a80d7ad93be0380de68472d5c2f4e0 SHA-1: dda0ec1728844947d3652eef5e5985af2aaeb2ed SHA-256: 8fe048db074303da3838dceed43c0de2a82f0c72d2054f8f8a78aa9ddd67e515
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context on the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cloze-ing+in+on+science+components+of+the+universe+earth+and+space+answer+key PDF link annotation
    • https://virtualpulse.eu/UserFiles/file/pelibujenijozeniked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077bca002c49---67914697640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d65d34d2a1---zebonikaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abworder.com/uploads/files/xudapikifamikop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marbeyoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/figabomejixopasabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovephuongtroi.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/wemuligodilitutox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rm-parketi.si/uploads/tijelinevukinojexerugus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaatc.com/userfiles/file/51027700017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1ef061a902---43514651589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yousefmaktabi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/padisojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazosilikatnn.ru/uploads/files/felexapovedodewobusepun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6pvp2c65hd1uohkndcaap5jato/79717260025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105a8f97d64c---79206903870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd7acaa2c2---97090596788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a15ff84a1e8---jimam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kabelkyaobuv.sk/editor_uploads/files/12981898935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098bf4bb1c5a---50765776568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorapizza.it/userfiles/files/gigupavadevekivax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16110a82705bd5---betamez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qc8bamu8qu9m4orj810sfdbrps/bijasux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izdepskifamily.com/clients/1/1a/1adacdf247316bc4617b3617d965acc7/File/32278850628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dabb90a20b9e7179728308f0941b971/83222322121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075169156034---92047279226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pobierzplik.pl/uploads/files/majexixibowumaposula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkorphotographyguide.com/userfiles/file/pezikene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dfa900e31ca6a4162d8fd917e8a33c2/sudowutukegezusewufazu.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_off00011a60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A60 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013277.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13277 11652 bytes
SHA-256: 2570f3f636649550e0d8c0ab7b925eeec7dd009ba4c256b74cf47bf9384a438f
font_02_sfnt_off00014df8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14DF8 17012 bytes
SHA-256: a623c598abeb48f0f7fb2b9125b450a501af80730b08aa72c31a230e5d79b75f