Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8e044a1789abf2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.4 KB Created: 2021-09-29 12:03:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: accceaae36bf887cc5de60409b9d07d5 SHA-1: 32458d4e4f846858c91eac547d2d8b1b6ee000eb SHA-256: d8e044a1789abf2d77ff846f20d021097106a154c4c6223dbc3fc6f4156789f5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely disguised as a document download. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=basic+electrical+and+electronics+engineering+book+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12b94e4cd3cf9d3a0d4b1eca4f7a480c/gerebolibadutebaxida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://es21sys.com/userfiles/file/39017687298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loadcell.vn/Images_upload/files/kibujibivagudusoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aorganboys.handyfriendship.com/upload/files/vodubasof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkirbilaw.com/userfiles/files/78941314575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ty6600.com/userfiles/file/93444192140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erpsamik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14798630734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linuxnewyork.com/draft/media/gaxodado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotarytattoomachine.co/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/jotomunuzese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0187877f781f6b851994f4572188a3f/wunijodezewemupadonij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwrosedale.com/uploads/files/39184724004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wedooverseas.com/userfiles/file/89067802478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210914171601545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kastely-vacduka.hu/fileok/file/wugusupom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenno-tojestto.pl/userfiles/file/birikiweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikomisushiwc.com/uploads/files/nezakemuvoteparaxedolobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandarinkinesiska.com/userfiles/file/50428752699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161328f3a35f15---nevebotobizavuruwes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steinemann-ag.ru/lalezezapuxapizokogabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpbnatation.fr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/visurazeremuvuzafeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmjmt.com/news/upload/file/210918031640038677wtf0nl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sikahaiphong.com/images/news/files/nevugufawunojixuruniret.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_off0000ace3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xACE3 14676 bytes
SHA-256: c94ac91203c992a4a70e1568e42616108b78666dc3c7b31da05b56224c7df307
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1D0 11168 bytes
SHA-256: 98db94e46b3e1cf888f3402e424a638d57b938d6251404b279405366e79e45ca
font_02_sfnt_off0000ebb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBB9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1