Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8752d138f6c95729…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-24 01:05:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 90267638719b804e89adf9756acbd63d SHA-1: bdf0825a03bab6280bb2c8f4883a846733a9b9a4 SHA-256: 8752d138f6c957299f8f48f72086c9490f147b8e039f6ed8f0853fa2fcf5cd51
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm, with many pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The embedded JavaScript stream and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. ClamAV also detected this as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=all+apps+on+android+crashing PDF link annotation
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f63c373104---47531424732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://railwaysrailroads.com/upload_files/files/difetaweludekavej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghalemdi.com/userfiles/file/31082349293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovfab-menuiserie.com/userfiles/file/41859331386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcoliseum.com/uploads/files/37537082554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marthomaktrplrdiocese.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67006528818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urgentcarepb.net/userfiles/file/30867735972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raylutickenterprises.com/userfiles/files/lakadovorixiserexum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nemeckystrakac.sk/editor_uploads/files/pozavalojajiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135eeefe1dd4---51237155256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.companyforte.com/imagenes/editor/file/16678875655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jocoseatee.com/userfiles/files/nuvoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10playsolutions.com/clients/softklk/documents/_articles_/file/bikefibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///wituropijulajume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh-songshi.com/admin/upimg/file///domid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakakinpump.kr/fckeditor/upload/file/faladejaposi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isitekmuhendislik.com/userfiles/file/79596173362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mclarenquartz.in/ci/userfiles/files/72839985618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daynexweb.com/upload/ckfinder/files/makujakojavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b63c440f58---ketiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb86124ad15f09f4f0f4a2ebcb089489/68499379608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danguykhoidoanhnghiephp.vn/Upload/files/92388444608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161385f970595a---59386575819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quimis.org/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wewadavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wtmasonry.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pimatuzevuzirewedi.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_off0000e208.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE208 17704 bytes
SHA-256: 2b116318661ae020facba42c99260cdffc80a882464604a7bbcb9c9691a6014d
font_01_sfnt_off0001103f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1103F 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 9605b786e9ad444b9ec346c7f7de3ac091aead1d30bda07e617c49c612a4e226
font_02_sfnt_off000127f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1