Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8388c558421e3df8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-09-25 06:34:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: c8ea2d734c5fc66243381a28cccf8d84 SHA-1: ca43e6f4d6dc29128e0415820dde7f1f13b036c9 SHA-256: 8388c558421e3df8c9a0cc25b33b8786a82fe93ebdbf39d3ebd3b482ff958ba8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable domains. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be non-readable content, suggesting its primary purpose is to host these malicious links rather than convey information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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 http://dienlanhlongan.com/upload/files/menipimuxarugug.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ekstelekom.com/userfiles/file/dukikofiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coolscape.info/images/files/82815633267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boardmark.com/files/file/6510916927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8187a9af8d6d0797e29093e26dd2e352/35442291289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pelesiuvalymas.lt/i/File/33925275567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congtydaihai.com/upload/files/nakosagunovidibefiwik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szigmetal.hu/editor_up/69620239634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americasbestmanassas.com/uploads/files/78520381391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofapas.it/userfiles/files/penivunuxelevofuvokewoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cocoon-source-harmonie.fr/public/file/kerunikozosotufesitirukug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorinhawear.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/detax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4tafb5v894hs1j1u052e179lin/71814678833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hideab.se/tc/Mediagalleri/file/satesamuwogeliruba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shriayurvednagpur.org/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5718544477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protrialse.eu/files/files/pofazolixalomin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yusungchart.com/userData/board/file/8879909395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46a625da82eee2f6ebd40c7d0fd26212/62418958217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unifor975.ca/userfiles/file/tofubazepil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttmplus.com/userfiles/files/sivodorudomumaseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://damvua.com/damvua/public/images/files/wojivosape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjaimama.com/data/upload/2021/09/file/202109171059046107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izhar-energy.com/userfiles/file/1061186649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613127ea0f579---28291925471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ykitraders.com/UserFiles/file/wumag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaisomboonautopart.com/userfiles/files/dimunir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=envoy+earning+apk+downloadPDF 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_off0000b4ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4CA 16436 bytes
SHA-256: f4f0b08b01d95313f7a70462d057375a6e5cd21daa74de92f03338c33e64aa1b
font_01_sfnt_off0000dea9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEA9 10640 bytes
SHA-256: fd7aa8e36cc38419bce823366faa2829ffd932a636e0b316cc45ffb7cb91a58c
font_02_sfnt_off0000f6ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1