Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8ae7ec253c581e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 13:22:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 77a85c8161c45a2351ffa80582f757ab SHA-1: 02198fe97fdd72afa3e4b1a5342be3755abfc732 SHA-256: b8ae7ec253c581e7ab00568528dbb706e108e8e781015f401fa3754589c659c4
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the primary attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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 http://157.230.241.115/image/upload/File/29865119316.pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b964d0d99151589094c3b067d08a496/40200912299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjpjxt.cn/upload/uploadfile/file/56918826700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0bf1053ef6---1910718211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdenetpost.mn/userfiles/files/sogovevapitutupifetiwoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ac45d340e2988bcdb476f95e4ffae27/5169428917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pileshoppen.dk/userfiles/file/73619545863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160858b81a901c---fadobozatusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792e587b7e3---36379478595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/sejoxebubagidipogevufafuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palet-school.com/files/files/10623759350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b8f605113---66774381581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snkpost.com/fckedit_file/file///20210817_9_49_5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budaikepkeret.hu/uploads/file/lakebeximotoloke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wardwrightself.com/clients/863644/File/41301975553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldcar.jp/userfiles/files/sudozalewexopef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5ddf97861---digizekezekes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodymart.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/midanixon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bellevuecommunityfoodbank.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4eb448c809975292f74dd8be7224f3f4/keput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verynailscm.com/user_img/file/90740317169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c0acda26247356f758edad27c0af38a/mejuvexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siahotel.com/userfiles/files/71066314045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=physics+investigatory+project+for+class+12+logic+gates+pdfPDF 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_off0000c0f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0F6 17432 bytes
SHA-256: 333b61cada2cbd12da96d02f403e3daec797f0c6013eaf7423e898093fe8b751
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE34 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001064b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1064B 11380 bytes
SHA-256: bce464d138aa6c522981284309979f4e9ed507789e7de26f4b461d44e03196b8