Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd8b5854e1d8ef03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-06-12 15:36:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: de2e6a15872742bee336c051d1a2df0b SHA-1: 2283bcbd64ce2d80700b831503188ca960b963a1 SHA-256: cd8b5854e1d8ef031fecafc79b6e1c06b8faea2dfb53dec1c123a6429d3e5a6e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to academic materials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=all+formulas+of+maths+class+10+icse+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/gozokumonelew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wfca-czech.cz/temp/userfiles/files/jonup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/purizusozaguvame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b87bcadebea8e0f3208a3ec2816a30b/xafegemamimileseso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ec56383e4---83981239008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vlfjhcb8qilrardfqij2jitkfb/70640877683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76f1d329062a0d62d329ac90a64d82b6/raverudene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmediahouse.com/admin/uploads/file/tiwigevutinigukezunekikeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vansuloi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/60646233354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/buxinunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v7gvq9fa91jpr37kid7597rsg3/15198201943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valaptop.com/ImagesVA/file/bodijoxevimupunelagubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tingyi-bnb.com/CKEdit/upload/files/70536440378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fusrb1t9g3dk18mkq4kj5aa71/kefesobakixitujeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zzliuxue.com/upfile/file/%5C/navategodefuzitob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s1g13cnfhpm40tkah4dbui6j4d/32953561767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000f353.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF353 5580 bytes
SHA-256: 8198acd924931e0d2e2b66129f8e13d65dff64f1e72b09b56201dca7cbef068f
font_01_sfnt_off00010624.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10624 11096 bytes
SHA-256: d7e1310e731ea2bed7948f50a3c19e77e62ea486115804e1e192e8dd4ef646c1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C1D 16096 bytes
SHA-256: 3a87a2a80cb0740ff7ad33dbd9b35031d90241dfccc5ab96a3d2c3133af9c3ca