Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a0d50ed55ca5a48…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-14 00:07:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6924ce1e5ce63fda728b5f82d9d00cad SHA-1: 4f8f74b85b1411b1ba74d0dd7eab02287ce16b4a SHA-256: 8a0d50ed55ca5a48c654ccf0b8b496080123b4564d093ed6265f38d1f9c4d943
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised websites or use disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or SEO spamming operation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the link structure and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://akiisushi.com/uploads/files/bifonoxafurer.pdf
    • http://syuncyoku.jp/upload/file/23249217004.pdf
    • http://loadcell.vn/Images_upload/files/83252149650.pdf
    • http://devitohomesorlando.com/userfiles/files/10753733958.pdf
    • http://slabowidzacy.smprzemysl.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22379309485.pdf
    • https://pioneerlift.com/upfiles/editor/files/vuvovutoxemifiza.pdf
    • http://yasaitogo.com/uploads/files/44275368285.pdf
    • http://ibookingkr.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210907_FD6D0690C305E021.pdf
    • https://kingcarmotorista.net/uploads/files/puvusane.pdf
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139ed412fe6d---motiwudejomuxopobewetele.pdf
    • http://toonesk.com/upload/59596242096.pdf
    • http://baove247.org/upload/files/digalal.pdf
    • http://crm333.com/documentos/file/kugotikukimiti.pdf
    • http://sicilalluminio.it/userfiles/files/gemezozawezozejeruxegug.pdf
    • http://iktoktatas.hu/files/file/ralisidaguzagimugotevimek.pdf
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161361f2252636---fivawi.pdf
    • http://usagimatur.com/files/others/vojapawewugawukul.pdf
    • http://gruppocreta.com/userfiles/files/zesomomuwowixilewisurimow.pdf
    • http://pet.nfe.go.th/m_site/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tixifoketuwagesopox.pdf
    • https://binarbaidservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/diwoderijusukavutasomiduf.pdf
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ljms642fecll0pi2l98sde96pp/wovivagepurudominisuxum.pdf
    • http://defhjdrjioo.friend-match.com/upload/files/rawumo.pdf
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d545b33148---zotojix.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=western+civilization+jackson+spielvogel+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d96d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD96D 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f17f.bin
de6efd123602a5d905debe2f208366cf03650cd9656274afbb5224d46daa188c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF17F 18268 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012044.bin
72e69a487f8e6fb1c0b1a43dff77a527da5711f3a575f8fe774108ae57c0e03c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12044 11136 bytes