Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8533027239fa9bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-18 20:52:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: bc298c9c3dac65324cd8fb268704db16 SHA-1: 6eecfb5c6d2c6815741696f75506f2d2b9913365 SHA-256: c8533027239fa9bcfe1d9a0ae464e095730a62a22c7f5ad38032d752c93d62d0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm nature strongly suggest it's used as a lure, likely for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=block+internet+access+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://beeshark.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/65522754734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitacasa.it/images/file/gimorokesanaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vasutaszeneiskola.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tidenesiveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/dukutesobuvarof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-dr.com/uploads/files/202109030844406591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.astmalek.cz/obrazky/file/91236118196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aibasavar.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57179209343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centrons.com/uploaded/file/1214897721614528568aa96.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9y.bfage.com/upload/files/20210901211250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tieuhocsongphuong.hoaiduc.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48596031107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glaze-metalart.com/upload/files/dexejevezununazaxokedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vallovin.it/userfiles/files/20811699577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64cf26de141b0b2e95624eded7af7874/duzegadamogesupob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buffagiuseppeinfissi.com/userfiles/files/73578745266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perevodvnegiloifond.ru/pict/file/62059217642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio70.eu/userfiles/files/17529353079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d65d1419146aa38636355ca6c1ec741/lepak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32f11950f063234fd1ff165d17722833/45128866584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gt-outillages.fr/ressource/site-image/files/rekodukevezuvozej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://producto.works/userfiles/file/98298663235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontiermyanmar.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vovopavebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aumnat2car.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/65060326388.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_off0000df0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF0F 16956 bytes
SHA-256: 0b8dd1b3f78745dd9e8916de28c751dcb8089ad82e9ae33476e24eabf74865d9
font_01_sfnt_off00010b02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B02 10512 bytes
SHA-256: 852c1aba353470c83b170f6e0abd33a58478aaffd3f0f1b911f408e1d8898986
font_02_sfnt_off00012317.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12317 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1