Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c8fb4ff47f6e37b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-09-12 18:17:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7d673367a361cb51b53acaa9c18dc1e8 SHA-1: 2e4c96aab60e9c56d9af248ba9e4f58751fec26c SHA-256: 9c8fb4ff47f6e37bf76b0b1255e9f168ade92c65df0fc77086185b334e342b8e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to potentially compromised websites or IP addresses, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to exploiting PDF vulnerabilities or redirecting users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://matfplayer.com/calisma2/files/uploads/8460075852.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://giga-tronics.com/userfiles/files/69334171359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastendmediation.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/70791354443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isagenixmakessense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79323659627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3416c915444c8742546f8ffeb9433e36/jiledebumeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galluccifaibano.it/userfiles/file/11019795056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.125.49/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210911_062214.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://aktifithalat.com/resimlerfiles/gabifibuzelone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leicesterbiketec.com/userfiles/file/75786325975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://collinite.pl/userfiles/file/28453622098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xrtradingfeedback.com/cmsimages/file/57294971391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanchuyenduongsat.vn/upload/files/13412003233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flomogroup.com/upload/files/jajezofefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walosports.cl/userfiles/file/57099381905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161388cd86be1f---74169576089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovecollection.com/royal/admin/images/products/file/51183456548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiroyoung.com/data/files/revixebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137f90a00c17---xotiwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verypool.cn/images/upload/File/wasizojeburi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-9/file/1769420754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sicompk.com/survey/userfiles/files/saribuwubopojubuxinevuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bocghebinhduong.com/media/ftp/file/38024144340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaaghhaztbcd1agjgbccsgfftf.xn--p1ai/pict/file/kinukawupebepigoroli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba12d70f842b5358bf30f9659823a9dd/fapadomekuvakilumagiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=winrar+mobile+apkPDF 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_off0000b8dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8DD 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 7316c3710650a94c34b9d464cddc80d17bcb6c98c1fc44f5257a4ab7e4e3ad12
font_01_sfnt_off0000cff8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFF8 16148 bytes
SHA-256: e19ec2d2d4abac3c66fbdafcde735631e58ae4f4e3de00dfbcd2091d1a5200b8
font_02_sfnt_off0000f96a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF96A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1