Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8ecd33fe44b26ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 10:47:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 4f7f7307ab01de23d85e9d9bd271c212 SHA-1: 59fa2b97fbf03c755064748af66bb1f4512c1b72 SHA-256: f8ecd33fe44b26ba38285da7f538ab1b8221173a32dfe99c822f7d919b5d8e00
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with attempts to exploit users via malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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=cma+course+details+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a17b4bc0e7---gojita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///zazewid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hchoanglong.vn/userfiles/file/37206107589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608be7f76b79c---puwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607347acbd866---mixujonidumuxake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090597d8940e---13149314848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853b6a64135---94861401019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johnsonsdynastyincfamilyassociation.com/clients/10108/File/52930461014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svarovanijelinek.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9405395725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timelessmebel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efa8a2e50fc553c52fb9972f7b390adf/69582056233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4096cf817008a8b341e5e52567c51b11/64469915455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef0acfb1b1a362a6fde06166cea81239/noxolesukusaniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v1bbaltq1dng96v3aiij9pe91p/xopurumozirokorin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infrastone.com/userfiles/files/bakoxovuvumox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms02bet.net/contents/files/3002430570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yevres.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67686076056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f56c6cfc2---39856388552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilturismoinitalia.it/userfiles/files/42332278634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldurra.ly/images-editeur/img/file/39125982798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3adad65034---84199231851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xmzs.org/userfiles/file/sodidomutanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makojudo.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/gemag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b5b24223b5---1273528942.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_off0000e6a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6A3 18096 bytes
SHA-256: 52c0d779e388dc682180d88ab0d539114aabf8c09dff6028f5252c6ecec155ad
font_01_sfnt_off0001163e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1163E 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 66b1555254abb8c9a529cbcd8c2c48e21ffebf5edfd881708c28b195645b5013
font_02_sfnt_off00012f34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F34 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1