Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a688eded90640e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-09-20 23:30:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: ca11417f377913f070f4f78a37b0102c SHA-1: b53619c9efe9b34be41cdc49ee920ed27046fe5a SHA-256: 8a688eded90640e61caae1fd78a876dea76443fbfd95bf9137770e067127aa7f
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of embedded JavaScript and a link farm hosted on compromised websites suggests an attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The document body, though obfuscated, contains metadata from wkhtmltopdf, and the heuristics indicate a link farm designed to appear as a download lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • 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://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dec7ab53e47dd62870fbdfb9cb916dc/ganirefekoxugepug.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bestpokeya.com/uploads/files/43627124322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3evhg5km5d92likk0p96i0a8qk/36508674823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huynhgiabaohotel.com/uploads/FCK/file/27978045670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0a35cecd7d5e3131675e552951681cc/15016416159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macro-e.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/88415100466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naoshima-tours.com/images/blog/file/tusobelikuzedez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nickelsgrafikdesign.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jewejasokejadevowejijavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/dasopifarojoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://economiadecomunion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pijitibilidipuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambcavallon.eu/userfiles/files/pozixepobumuvazoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614704105ed02---vitovezekanudev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bankkartya.hu/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2778196231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoarduini.eu/userfiles/files/fukanetetunakerixurixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21837607462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logo4you.dk/userfiles/file/vadujujaweruposiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpjse.news-read.com/upload/files/momirozokizonasavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sensi-leszno.pl/userfiles/file/9270413015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/49205383143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexprikson.com/admin/style/images/userfiles/file/dizinup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-preiss.at/upload_files/files/44755642490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irinka.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62199033875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mujeresenmovimientoplus.com/userfiles/file/lurizodajenuniguvuwewub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135d6a763309---68601852679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c18dea1aaf0b646f8ac41e5e7165372/64990491078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=download+game+beyblade+burst+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000c3a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3A5 11176 bytes
SHA-256: 82641ac2505e3288147578a7a03256a035d61b5394be3b579674a5857255c5e2
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD75 16924 bytes
SHA-256: 66e92b35a1801a54514c8ad37864ff3646a9fe4d96a39a3cc37f2c245332307a
font_02_sfnt_off0001090e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1090E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1