Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ffcfbb0d3cabc46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-20 11:15:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 064ac32fd07bbbb7e0647eaf40f4794e SHA-1: 92ca8338833b751c872f14f90b502b0da4d5b12f SHA-256: 8ffcfbb0d3cabc4620415f648062498cccb2b8a36d3550b78166beae71d501d6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the presence of external URIs suggest potential for further malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ld+player+windows+10+64+bit PDF link annotation
    • http://cmorshomecareassociates.org/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/rajifojenanikebekisojosab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147f21c6e062---fojuwevigepuzozivavifelas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emailreceptionist.net/userfiles/file/nagararatelozozel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vasantviharproperties.com/userfiles/file/nusotedobet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a374fd0872815a41b14f3ec3fa05a85/787919392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gancza-yacht.pl/userfiles/file/32649526648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/12264328910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budgettranslation.hu/sites/default/files/file/votugedikodokot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darslaska.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27749682386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://servis-hradec.cz/files/file/likuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quimicasorocolor.com.ve/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60923960013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-pisanie-prac.pl/famprojekt_z_serwera/images/file/fesorulodisuluzurifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreanhotpot.com/uploads/files/31621587670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da45f544fc2225c261f037247c31f7de/34175991778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swvocal.com/data/se2/file/femejogisofexulete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiwatopup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90684772657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontech.vn/images/ckeditor/files/sejavinunugixepabek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playbabydoll.com/userfiles/file/bijegobitipegujuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivo-mebel.ru/upload/file/19695200597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eegbiofeedback-leszno.pl/userfiles/file/14952944420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traktorpulling.de/ablage/userfiles/files/xibud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nedimgame.net/calisma2/files/uploads/nazoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaudi.tw/upload/file/beripisedepubupifitisoweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parateam.cz/file/86609764853.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_off0000e596.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE596 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fda8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDA8 18112 bytes
SHA-256: 446c171ed27ef2b0416df6720eaef1b1e160ead68059e2af10d9b1def77098ae
font_02_sfnt_off00012c2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C2B 11100 bytes
SHA-256: 81f1b0441a626cc5d6a3bb077a87bceef5361edb8a7f176ff04b219de6d80e57