Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8789121453c0046a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 03:14:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 35f931bcf02d863f7d0c528589bff05b SHA-1: 4cbf2c555fd198cd4fc7fc2133efc957974bb1bb SHA-256: 8789121453c0046a9cef23d12210de21a7f69578272673f4fd6bb2abe7b89ec7
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple unknown domains, identified as a potential lure for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is malformed, but the presence of numerous embedded URLs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic confirm the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://hijaustabilo.com/contents/files/nelanejuroderujero.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ww150003.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210912102607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f39df72304---88151247594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meruzhankhachatryan.com/app/webroot/files/file/saxebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chrmglobal.com/userfiles/file/wolirer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.seblocation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71053977900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skvely-kup.cz/files/file/gugugefitofim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanchariglobal.com/userfiles/file/93970984136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9m2ivltivp096ug9gqmtij91o2/52642516765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vps73.juicy-group.com/editor_upload_image/file/bebejuritadajanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naucharts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2239893831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tplustech.com/images/ckeditor/files/12428363087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinruily.com/UploadFile/file/20210906122746304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161383752777a1---95728610463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naszymsladem.pl/upload/file/bakor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art-eria.pl/mandarynka/pliki/files/weseveligebajetivumam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irepairplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/veretezulekikiwovezajata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiangzhuan.tw/upload/files/suwewusafaditujomimabajib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hagelkonzept.com/userfiles/file/6445891358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melvin.cz/data/sixofezuturudetukubipivab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141505ce05b4---95481586985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mannaz.pl/userfiles1/file/denupizisarugewumuvexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinners-party.de/media/file/3538713844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=scanner+app+to+pdf+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_off0000de98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE98 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 57708e8d3c89ab937a37ea25c8c1b2a6ab31d3bad54368cc079cd899a07c0ae1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f70b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF70B 17444 bytes
SHA-256: 3d51d5220d4a8bc9c86a75d7bbd185d2aa0c3d779c88be1405bfc49df836a8e9
font_02_sfnt_off0001240d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1240D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1