Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8095424974f4f826…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 17:58:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 087a014f9dd8db871ee59e182b754298 SHA-1: ebc1c072d94d0d0ec7c6eee586ed4021e9d99cc0 SHA-256: 8095424974f4f82650267152f589aa6a87e231ae6a12130140b8beb18b1ed015
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish for information. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to external, untrusted sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=great+gatsby+chapter+4+audiobook
    • http://ash-graphy.com/userfiles/file/70216458619.pdf
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721a21925d3---jesiz.pdf
    • http://ca1970.com/clients/10044/File/58767062977.pdf
    • http://whkmradio.com/userfiles/file/7729947814.pdf
    • https://likeevent.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/60435061711.pdf
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cp3g55oa4o7g81tbep7gn9dhu0/77289294986.pdf
    • http://hokeypokeychallenge.com/clients/7/77/77ac66e313b6cb4bf602f1678accca72/File/99432057779.pdf
    • http://computerdoki.hu/user/file/bijedekafipe.pdf
    • http://ajk-opakowania.eu/upload/fck/file/81371444364.pdf
    • http://markfarolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/83655788462.pdf
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c37dca26830---62668325040.pdf
    • http://daiichihr.com/uploads/news_file/49524275374.pdf
    • http://vitalenzyme.com/uploads/fckupload/file/73122694804.pdf
    • http://sillajen.com/fckeditor/_upload/file/81927420470.pdf
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59a03f8e71b858a9efe921b7c9de0324/buriwavotiwobizidupuzumaj.pdf
    • http://fontanarosaserigrafia.it/userfiles/file/83272343690.pdf
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a818554c919---76636806086.pdf
    • https://najlepsze-w-polsce.pl/uploads/relavenibigetibi.pdf
    • http://shreejians.com/userfiles/file/84253662716.pdf
    • http://koovappadyscb.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fijujuridof.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c043.bin
5625a5e0dad4c942a96eb013621034ea7a0bcaeb6ba9da9caca7a3f481c96ade
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC043 16196 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea38.bin
b171dbe17442fe6f90703dbd6d3899976d57dc643da945c2614a6434ae3cac00
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA38 11208 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001044d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1044D 16792 bytes