Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8389acc9a6cc87f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-24 11:47:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: bb11c7bc2f926ad277a251357f464ce0 SHA-1: b48f3372bef6cb9136bde5d5ed73ce0b453d0337 SHA-256: 8389acc9a6cc87f71b2b90d35ff17c96e0c4f60c99730f2e6e96b6ba267de271
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains. The presence of external URI heuristics and the compromised CMS upload link heuristic strongly suggest that the PDF is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content, such as phishing pages or malware download sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=app+sharing+app+for+android PDF link annotation
    • https://lifesmart.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74410138532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hig-hegmann.de/userfiles/file/pixupewajilisimaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michellenevinracing.com/FCKeditor/file/pujaroporaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventexevent.se/uploads/file/kejeseviwokigefev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosewoodcity.org/nbloom/fckuploads/file/67784471303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferest.ro/imagini_ws/94833901219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pk.mo/userfiles/file/99728383868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ph2020.org/FCKeditor/file/2635066448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o39a91gvwm83kbsn.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210915_593764B6935255EE.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-uklid.com/files/file/11771822113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daltan.hu/userfiles/file/76606818357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137ef25b676f---jupuwugofinozaxoxumiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitness-sport.it/userfiles/file/wevudabojako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sourceit.ke/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/temabiselanasufaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614cd3c8adce1---midofet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtyxbpzx.com/filespath/files/20210916210849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141a146878fb---31329690794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140ee1e2daef---nizazobujut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega-treid.com/userfiles/files/wexinusidaxoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z-sinpro.com/upload/files/xitafaduneke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qazaqbanki.kz/data/content/files/57706484898.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_off0000e45e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE45E 10484 bytes
SHA-256: 5f3739bdebd7ddccbe0f38bb055438c0a094b6efe071a3e345d71af5a013154a
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbe3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBE3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000113f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113F5 17624 bytes
SHA-256: 1c66fa8ead757fdea50dd0118aa6b384981e2bef8d3d41131ba639f19ed8475f