Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ffdc325469007d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-16 22:18:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 106b9c0a7c3a9d4063643d64c8034c04 SHA-1: 09912db22f3b4ab40d1b140a5fea23f738616d45 SHA-256: 8ffdc325469007d30a06889c4be234f03bf80787a2b4cb776a663b3ec3ff2658
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on what appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=arena+master+2+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://www.hotelrestaurantmacarena.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zawirajukad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baruipur.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lovuvanibeniko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidmitt.com/img/files/file/kolujefeneriferox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khamtribacninh.com/images/files/84671277194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supremeroi.com/FCKeditor/file/feloboweje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.smartfutureexpo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/piwifivobupafav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munnarteabungalows.com/userfiles/file/pepijoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulmarconsult.com/files/wegebijamibijip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613623e908666---bikodozagux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrzservices.com/uploadfiles/file/mufur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungtamsangloc.vn/uploads/ck_upload/files/65111321938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podlahyadvere.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/gowamarew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34d5db7127bcebfb5b1963e3954eed74/22804068288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c5f66b1ef1---dexudidumiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.solucionaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61823804648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thechelseaff.com/user_uploads/files/miwizafuguvajise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://episcopiaoradiei.ro/files/ronixaziwejojub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-tms.com/uploadpic/xw/files/laloludigotuzijis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springgalleryng.com/Images_upload/files/nidowamojexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://libertyrealestate.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38375216496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicodambra.eu/userfiles/files/49728283823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scherzerpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/26605836366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architetturaurbanistica.it/userfiles/files/goravopizubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullmagicweekend.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dadejaxodaxaxini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhtoangalaxyhotel.vn/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/wevuvupeb.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_off0000c556.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC556 10348 bytes
SHA-256: 86e4aa2021550d79e64e209279b66dfb73a338e530edfeacea5c8929308eccb4
font_01_sfnt_off0000dcc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCC8 19164 bytes
SHA-256: 22cb4475ca36c375198fbe0f65872a719663a40956b7e0ee830996b1ffc30288
font_02_sfnt_off00010ece.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ECE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1