Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 820081e909fdf01e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.0 KB Created: 2021-09-26 18:01:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 8da661c8a7b1524fbc9b3a5dcf274d6a SHA-1: 3b1ee46be85d8ce75acfbdfd1341cb41ffe274ff SHA-256: 820081e909fdf01ebd325429cea6c474ff369675f862a4739243bc12876df3af
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of numerous URLs, including one with a 'harry potter' term, suggests a lure to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=harry+potter+how+to+stream PDF link annotation
    • http://residenceraffaellotorino.com/userfiles/files/midalaxakazivowukilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatagz.com/uploadfile/files/nejiwatimukiget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturhalles.fr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/44102806859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kstraders.com/userfiles/file/wamap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschaden-expert.de/userfiles/file/86668713292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mujeresenmovimientoplus.com/userfiles/file/tifubupesamawipejipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oncallanatomist.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35957613239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yumasri.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63965316241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winterwonderlandzundert.nl/uploadimages/files/82770056144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lohoithaiduong.com/uploads/files/89039554229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamcc.com/UserFiles/files/45875394988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://processwork.archerhuang.com/ConImg/files/votexozew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pelicanfinancialnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94370251989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138cea3b1b00---68019412782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a4abaf9618388e10f53638e2c4dc249/42109077019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colegiosantarosa.com/uploads/imagem/file/kalegamisimoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haruhonpo.com/upload/haruhonpo/files/xemofuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichibus.vn/uploads/news_file/ximonojefolozunuwamirefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614f49b7787bd---napevezozalolirapiruku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esipro.fr/userfiles/file/53700857128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loyd.rs/images/file/55529019350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fred-robin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19611469606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-newsletter.com/ckupload/files/92285309170.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_off0000ade6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xADE6 14924 bytes
SHA-256: e1a7a17e723efb092661b6c0d800b9ce4bca733dd2bf17f48de467465d457cd9
font_01_sfnt_off0000d2ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2EE 10468 bytes
SHA-256: d94ff9691eeeb1ad338d0c502c36b3c4ddd3eeb320e762f34eedb3a08d534f57
font_02_sfnt_off0000eacf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEACF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1