Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a4eea78b6548311…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-09-20 02:52:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d12f0a1fcbce0843465a61acbe7cded0 SHA-1: f19da7e5468a7c9ed740c5f6a2a9ac09bd6b10b1 SHA-256: 8a4eea78b6548311878fb30a213a5135ab5c27a33125dc7f8f8981dd73465cf9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised websites and potentially disposable hosting. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL findings suggest a malicious document designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://cheesykeju.com/contents/files/nasiterudefufibebebaxe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://beauty214.com/uploads/files/202109111155538925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sassanoproperties.com/FCKeditor/file/39264840512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161369fc3e09bc---96241276344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d7a12e387af38db15da93fc31b3f068/71639079929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67ce55d36bqh7unuh8ab1dastt/kigamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/834b4d9b12216bc5c6df0a469cb790c4/95527944755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massageindex.nl/images/uploads/lowov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phunhai.net/upload/files/30099546872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edisonprivateschoolbeta.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/katoratitonexijakuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/zimuvizinolasigumojij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/707cbb047245837bc12eb0d3cef0490f/fukolevededelofozazemus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malovanesklomh.cz/images/file/25506534941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aow.infogestnet.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45804737869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://axlthailand.com/imagexx/files/mirasexelizuxoruno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelrealerimini.it/userfiles/files/10758334976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tehpromyar.ru/media/file/94938433345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarkar.ie/userfiles/file/zotinadebiporilovedun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vin-baietii.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99433624134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinistudy.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/54159152987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tccsrl.org/userfiles/files/mesaxiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.singaporemedicalclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/karibepesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digjamaica.com/app/webroot/files/82636462492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/39334482256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fengshan-zhennangong.org/upload/ckfinder/files/lidimazajefuzaxakawiwoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=windows+7+64+bit+service+pack+1+isoPDF 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_off0000dc80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC80 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f492.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF492 18676 bytes
SHA-256: 58e717b10f43ff7edcae3e81092856056240b67a0b72851bc1eff9f84310a853
font_02_sfnt_off0001256b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1256B 14784 bytes
SHA-256: beb25f4ac768fdb55bfa66ca54a5c8d83e1f97d68ae1cd9d3003f3ba4ef81aa0