Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c6e80eb04deb0a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-19 18:20:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 9e0de67d6fd496b1ab24250b8462a47f SHA-1: 64f57183b32574a61ab6d01f322f8107c5d1155b SHA-256: 8c6e80eb04deb0a254c125242dc346d5e5e4c8dd656426c8d2b4b8c5b578f056
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a URL with 'download assassin's creed pirates' strongly indicates a lure for pirated software. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection confirm the malicious nature of the PDF, likely serving as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+assassin%27s+creed+pirates PDF link annotation
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146f9f909bfe---rolezetakijitude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicpark-live.de/userfiles/file/judadowananadidalolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chingyi.tw/userfiles/files/45495802290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synphabase.ch/upload/file/16407059514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilot-nav.socksnbows.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vebavamavaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knowleangling.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pepuvij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makrostal.pl/user_images/file/47676745626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ac7f508430---xamudalopimuxuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shreenatharcade.com/userfiles/file/14115583631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwfinlay.com/uploads/files/11900429088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poexali.org/static/image/_u/system/files/jorogamugojotatas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keralabiblesociety.com/fck_uploads/file/56811359298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ca13adea99---88728864476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146ab0d19143---sabifolup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovfab-menuiserie.com/userfiles/file/lerufit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariamozharova.ru/uploads/files/79255206843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25d213471232d1f709da651d81b7d7c0/mozirixokawarubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secureyun.cn/uploadfile/file///2021091922363064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs/files/jowizorotowozupukodopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atpl.aero/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60878075184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyqjsj.com/UploadFile/file/20210909034816687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/16352077352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16137e6e2d5503---muwivutizazoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawauang.com/contents/files/sonof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssss-sangam.com/userfiles/file/40079083744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d4a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4A6 17996 bytes
SHA-256: 297f32497f1e8b33851ab008aa3956820df0369adc3b1d3e1a513c0158e2dc72
font_01_sfnt_off00010312.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10312 10628 bytes
SHA-256: e6bf2c261096cd6f837296bb50e3578e37a69c42f7e160bc62f8e90d550b27eb
font_02_sfnt_off00011b9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B9B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1