Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8767ade9a41cdc28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:57:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: be2a3cdf487e58dc5cdff505f3e42e81 SHA-1: bca65c2c2026e6408771618dae2fe3e545f3a40b SHA-256: 8767ade9a41cdc28bf39294c18ac223937a53363c86767a79cf1bd118ac5145b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file that contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous URLs suggest an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://themalc.org/files/file/kisere.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://midospa.com/upload/files/95636991675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanyauntuktesting.com/contents//files/41972966000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nousgarage.com/userfiles/file/8318223548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qazaqbanki.kz/data/content/files/rexinirimiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a129e3a26547d9fd24c76f4bbce1152c/peguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aalatour.com/basefile/b2caalatourcom/files/xiwijoruge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca9e398d35---mutawokirojukibaser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2trj7slfarc6b9nob0u4io877c/xipufuboxozitiziled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609af488ec405---14861972117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2loo97r0pcn581rqsbvpogq9tu/36719458209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harkakotony.hu/UserFiles/file/77585113198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enricobarraco.com/files/vivolurunuloborixokasoker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607164b4094f4---74656145992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4qdabn2ci4bcu9dqja9u87bdia/bifudizogunenofoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zzwgjx.com/d/files/82806902441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenpeak.it/userfiles/files/kiwagekalewutesitagep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c25497310c7---doledetinovipeniko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovove-ploty-brany-zabradli.cz/UserFiles/File/fubezedagugomilikaxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalikraft.com/images/file/wukijugedudow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slmj8.com/data/userfiles/files/70933240470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/1638984564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=titanic+a+survivor%27s+story+pdfPDF 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://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_off0000d84e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD84E 18064 bytes
SHA-256: 606b99fa7a8ec46960d65d439db2ac05c92a57fc02761fef0ee66becd6531c5e
font_01_sfnt_off000106a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106A3 10712 bytes
SHA-256: f5bf1a230fa0cb41347b01a96c3eac06318a8f002e488991214a0b260280b72b
font_02_sfnt_off00011f7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F7F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1