Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c90a05dc1dc9a6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-09-14 10:00:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: e0944a765b76c946044bf89a88a46c86 SHA-1: fee115e8a9ec086a447272326fcdc60d73d2b0ab SHA-256: 8c90a05dc1dc9a6ca43c1d36748b3bee737df5a978767783daeac1b869ebc41b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://majorpropertygroup.com/userfiles/files/95279179468.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jindi2010.com/uploadfile/files/wigolixuvafibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melabo.com/upload/files/93084211092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfhcoaching.nl/userfiles/files/zowetobulirafovozela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alwillislifecenter.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rupasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmandarin.com/uploads/62954536950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77948227102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1agaa2anfqdp.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fumokediviwebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136be9ce4a5f---105846754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-park.es/img/uploads/files/19646067663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpjseah.news-read.com/upload/files/2019105159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.net/FCKeditor/file/57560507814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienlanhtruongson.com/upload/files/65700546966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorillatheory.com/admin/upload/file/gunopukenizizowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktifimmo.lu/userfiles/files/73557942471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelspace.pl/userfiles/file/wukeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/51550332180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fbdaa4e94d---nalobovaxakup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crosswaysrecruitment.com/userfiles/file/juvolesarinojizabedexukab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/51826392403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagrupacio.cat/file/59125172434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136921b4f927---fareleki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ojchamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97195183677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palaciodelosnavas.com/userfiles/file/kivibili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/bawakojave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pincesorvarshop.hu/editor_up/rufopaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=words+with+vox+at+the+beginningPDF 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_off0000c605.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC605 17880 bytes
SHA-256: 3d00c8bd6cfb02efc2e0568a399f0be3f0ddb9152055a15a8b7882272cfde0ba
font_01_sfnt_off0000f46e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF46E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010c85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C85 10868 bytes
SHA-256: aed7a91d66b675313cc7a38c9399ca17e8ccc1b482bae9bc2ac93020575d2dfa