Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8cddf5e742c10169…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-08-31 18:37:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: eea496ea1c0cfdc1d559f20ab58c05c9 SHA-1: 3a794643528b0306c67f41fbf5039cb02dacb3fc SHA-256: 8cddf5e742c10169dc1642a56bd48a2d109163c6602ce9c4fcbf50ab8058b582
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, with several heuristics indicating a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and link farm nature point towards a malicious document designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://smartdeal.pl/files/upload/files/94578592017.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cosmic-kino.ru/sadm_files/8469059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/54286761288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k73gbbl928v6kfe7d3b5gnqgcg/37766838935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/bisaxoref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9b6e1c8e48---xijegesemejusixovoziloxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n2g7ch0fnsbi0ue9l3l9aqserh/22868022008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarexperten.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/84054820088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/vilebezuvep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getracemirates.com/userfiles/files/gebigugasebusemukowel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca83ea1e58bd2e55bbd3509e07e47348/92113045214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotellemaritime.com/hotel/upload/files/mekubaxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g27v5c7jla2ffa9t11dfrcfod3/kafiwisovokuzuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kcequipment.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8985ca48f48ef5b6205f0ed43241dbc9/34178647135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abeess.com/userfiles/file/bopipisuzuluwugilesas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwnickersonplaza.com/uploads/files/pefuninutelejadisavesed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e5a5a98a3---kubinuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/536044d69aeea1fbae0646ae185400e1/42811935803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laurallo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79769972143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonnenheizungen.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/bebudupemorevolom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patokapugsnkisses.com/clients/61143/File/nibamumofude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiaranannini.com/userfiles/files/jujid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcf1af5cb99---dufigikikudumopupajol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=fundamentals+of+heat+and+mass+transfer+6th+edition+solutions+manualPDF 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_off0000da46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA46 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 4fc03ce00b6507aec22f7c7f0ee335d96af1c86bca88d17ddfbd347fe73b5a6b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f32b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF32B 17848 bytes
SHA-256: a196e05bd57564a73d28f2be2b5540f70aa36d1c281df6aca529b52fe6525999
font_02_sfnt_off000121b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121B4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1