Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8962cc885839cc3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-08-17 10:58:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 416d2a95ac0dface68c7999d3df5fa51 SHA-1: 064ca029bdd096057585127c6c56bc65781032fb SHA-256: d8962cc885839cc369ee05633eb851d1a6fdfaf72451929574cb5becdc1ad835
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is unreadable binary data, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://calmoinc.com/upload/editor/file/tenupezuxakodiwukul.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://broadcasthub.com/ci/userfiles/files/wenajiwibuparigiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bem-sa.com/img/file/7859244140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74b757f37874773af2acfd0fe689ebdf/pokavupakavojajumifige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pp89h1fc9c83o7jlbmc4aplh47/bepimenakusizaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74vpd7hrgthk56hbbp4gjk2eut/94185577309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kampusogrenciyurdu.com/file/pojimulew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5917b9e24d---56931605305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1a1801397f---ferolulukinijinexekeruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curvesncontours.com/userfiles/file/lobojonefisuwovexufipusan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catwalkdogcome.com/editor_upload_image/file/74760875811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ukpimcer6qsdnemrsn21rug96/53445070248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tnoul87i33iv5gebe7454hv3c5/21033533923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artlabjo.com/userfiles/file/xamogulovamana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsterparkett.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ntkdm3hiju08raak6tlt0ghh1b/rilididefamonipaxezajaxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://associazionedynamica.it/uploads/file/fexinewimozufepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/19025659196089bb7dd94af.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e04f30a8c---76898704813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsmontaggi.it/userfiles/files/fufovonexilisekuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfe.hk/userfiles/rados.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mepho.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2317589855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9t3obfukk7i7ck0l15l1j5k246/68473557358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0b65818924---zejelefumezef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fishtech.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/katoxowimovinemeribij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=airy+er+activation+code+windowsPDF 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_off0000c009.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC009 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 7495eb0dafdf5d5fe5107b115c826ad52e5d4c2e8e948f9a1fc6ecb1e965ba76
font_01_sfnt_off0000d862.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD862 16024 bytes
SHA-256: 9a6cfeb6240baf25e52f2e26e1c98703064992d23122f6ba5a0d10c60385ea25
font_02_sfnt_off000101a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1