Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8008833a14f92fda…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.9 KB Created: 2021-10-02 16:19:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: b84da40441761c8ccbec4667e2191d1a SHA-1: 3f86eb8ba757015af080c5a047d4914a797bdf15 SHA-256: 8008833a14f92fda89b4b485c0f0eaec08e429a227e2f190d3faafb5b2039852
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://jsptti.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35350801649.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://eclickapps.in/userfiles/files/28912239383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julianowka.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26210350043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aajude.pt/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32393638315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ergakiland.ru/files/files/35806677116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beauty-full.ru/uploads/files/17685837074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointswestliving.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62559250508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjmfgx.morefriendship.com/upload/files/96721966262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundacjaartfreeart.pl/userfiles/file/27224201222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanwanderer.com/himalayan/userfiles/files/84313875649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mc-opony.pl/files/file/40474486091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harrisitalia.it/uploads/file/18242746273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machin.kr/userData/board/file/palizevolitofujomuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushiyaslo.com/uploads/files/wuged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140120131197---kekametamuxufobere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindah2.com/contents/files/lolef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16157009646f7b---92053231817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopabrang.com/images/files/zijidasukobes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulaikhatextile.com/userfiles/files/65823456073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braindevelopmentmaps-org.neurondevelopment.org/userfiles/files/72823552893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134f45f3c3bc---zujagazofonuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markapin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/nozalifarurujewuwebimuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rippa.pt/files/file/gitoruxajazej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emenu.hu/editor_up/naxeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=what+to+do+if+you+have+lost+your+licensePDF 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_off0000afe7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFE7 14912 bytes
SHA-256: a8106449076b1aa41f1807e26d02224e484b1ae119803e2be4dd8a53e0cc2951
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4D6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000eced.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECED 10844 bytes
SHA-256: eda465ff93d8e921517f5f72a275f7939c87956bf832319db82f3f8c85298fae