Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ff1fd58359590c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-08-29 15:37:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 70a20db6fbc3fa3d8fb7d557dab1dc9b SHA-1: 8fba8dfca053b228748553c22f69952871ac99b2 SHA-256: 8ff1fd58359590c3397fc5d642f35e7c4ae793816d75d1f464fbf0d7d51a2dd4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it's designed to evade static analysis rather than convey information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://mabuksusu.com/contents//files/49934398818.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a32ad81050c---58380925776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiantms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55583955109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agenziaimmobiliarecannavo.eu/userfiles/files/gititobekokisusimigeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azizolace.cz/images/file/dufoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhanh.com/files/jenafase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba0b88a3149---pufelidilameropa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oralrem.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60968415019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4836d5891---dekizateverususiniguge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bdc0d6f3a1616dee96725a9dfbb0252/47728025479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tideandtigers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46378693330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fa0b79h3bdrtqifdobqmkqcn1/32999653858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t883qnmif5hgaajkp4u5mhqh0k/tufuxurewoferuwulamezes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jessicarossitto.com/clients/7/7c/7c16b8c799dae9ffcd1258f31d6ff645/File/53687669477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakn3aoflleitf3m6a.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/wafivebegeroken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ana-jsc.com/upload/files/13515973955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vititanon.com/user_img/files/pawuvapix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cv63qjjfii8imt64hti7rm2tm7/raxumezuzomalevatutok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirakademi.com/resimler/files/45596654131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gertiesbloomers.com/kousumi/nulook/upload/fckimages/file/49983711475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a7fc8b293dbf383605617985f234884/88948623533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m8eog7287p82pnpusmjtn14fne/kutekuwutisodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c633a78bd6---fokumez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=void+cannot+be+converted+to+booleanPDF 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_off0000e45d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE45D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC6F 17408 bytes
SHA-256: 774dc7fc7a01967cd068f01d893b89b44d891e240c31281c48acc8da5691560b
font_02_sfnt_off00012a12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A12 10368 bytes
SHA-256: ef8150fdc55d9b259d522f326a6ecb26dfc6a6b242c85052c5ac50500a0e9b93