Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8038a71a026c7d14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 03:31:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 7757bc1d9d57837d0c08b0fcc4fde7e0 SHA-1: b80b9b6efbde49708303616466fd46c7f9929bb5 SHA-256: 8038a71a026c7d1489d72c6810166fb4cabfbab132eb4e9652bd0726d0845a91
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. Embedded JavaScript streams are present, suggesting potential for further malicious actions like redirection or payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=origin+app+android PDF link annotation
    • http://www.itidharamshala.in/images/uploads/files/96744501601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenways.at/userfiles/file/78515942503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elmundodelapiscina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46547006441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptogel2.com/contents/files/16905026515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burkina-businessschool.com/business_school/uploads/file/93508037670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/67066590098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d94lfdttjo2l9ohj60hd4bvh3j/sesiwuginigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sofahatinh.com/upload/files/84048435721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b11af14d4294e0186e38f2236b947f64/mibuduxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://execdentalclinic.com/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50535000995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newchat.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puxenoxiwig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jualumnitoronto.com/editor/uploadfiles/50992467180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landtop.com/filespath/files/20210918082702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://libyamonitor.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuvivenipojex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koetec.com/home/~ptow/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fivekerupus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161424a60a6bc4---93730560525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraski-chernila.ru/resources/file/zutufajasojir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134f4b45e16d---lukalona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schubert-hh.de/image/file/35849387732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmangroupllc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43685404979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptogel2.com/contents/files/62876597836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-junsheng.com/upload/file///2021918623706.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_off0000e98a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE98A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000101a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101A1 10148 bytes
SHA-256: fe27236d9daa285481734979c97b7d15b566e65c9ef29a331f5e9ee0db392b9a
font_02_sfnt_off0001181d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1181D 17180 bytes
SHA-256: b5d782d62dc594b498fb3e4271ff4fa533b2584c87e425b28692baf83a20edd7