Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 800e938481df8a1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-09-20 04:51:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 856206bc1b703bfd982e4761be569032 SHA-1: 1a43b34e1c7014cdc34321db47d843ad621b8fb1 SHA-256: 800e938481df8a1c2cf82978898cea21e892515309e201f2dbaa036699a54570
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, potentially leveraging a QR code lure as indicated by a heuristic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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 http://www.feniuniversity.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12588357863.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4f2f48350c87c637b9e26a43a652641/jabitimodat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://majortaylorride.info/images/uploaded/file/kaduxixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambatownship.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93862898577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://6nergy.fr/6nergy/sites/default/user/file/27424761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundheit-im-blog.de/userfiles/file/pifovidufubimibutabal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keralahappyjourney.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wopezikajamaluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dxczx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210916_044309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farmaciapenil.es/userfiles/files/60119956450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teenmag.cz/userfiles/file/87429948926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stephankeppel.com/userfiles/file/gatedapomowesitapabewone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://civilkontroll.hu/uploads/file/lidoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://porfic.com/fotos/file/tuzikodikifajetiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142795711c31---gujifufulugoxuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svarovanijelinek.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15881057364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlead.net/images/e/file/kamokagurujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aydinservis.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70461627438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elementsgogreen.com/userfiles/file/xuloxeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613964e7b3a8b---fudanerowene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f907bcc9423cc9c6f9088fb947549a8f/natuzarebonizokonuxekebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acril.ru/ufiles/files/74882112699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsse.hssanesteban.cl/files/lalegizudifugafureda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edb0d565ae3596c3e618651d1a877304/37374895063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tprcindia.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18449881413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=tomodachi+life+free+download+androidPDF link annotation
    • https://b2cdemo.tickets.com/content/files/gazumogelib.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_off0000bff9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFF9 10524 bytes
SHA-256: a82c882146308ab7ab54f1a801c7d41b2cf2fef5b00cb6909bf120278c7ca0c6
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7BE 17220 bytes
SHA-256: df649045e2eac965fee1813ad0c78146d9258f6394432c982d982879ed6cdd29
font_02_sfnt_off00010431.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10431 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1