Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d176002742a935c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.0 KB Created: 2021-09-23 21:14:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: e3fbfb5efdcab26bc4fec14fad37717f SHA-1: 9b144711cff7ab38592037713d82632cf56a73d8 SHA-256: 8d176002742a935ced5c57a1cf6165ac8ff4ccb83faf7831b0263b97ca86a993
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these link farms and the overall detection by security tools strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://skkl.cn/filespath/files/20210906072155.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.accl-calibration.com/login/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61157429806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alummaswaja.com/yii/sdbalikpapan/home/images/upload/files/36560831217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ave-france.com/pics/files/22908934117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indiachristian.org/uploads/files/ganameleteluwupimewibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iqrainternationalschool.org/_assets/files/jebudivalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-shodnya.ru/upload_picture/file/78926996259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://local-minicab.com/survey/userfiles/files/57025327140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-esc.net/user_img/files/nujadev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/smsj1agu6a1nip1h3b0s64d8ro/21158056238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msinziniering.com/userfiles/file/58884688354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tunguoilon.tunhua.vn/ipp/images/uploads/files/24780076631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0c8c65211de78b270a90c4fcdf19ec9/defenizonavogalagutewaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lohoithaiduong.com/uploads/files/togikimem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134278a38f93---vejerame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magerp.org/upload/files/4183862204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132872bc8177---xumefotemuvox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccs-corporation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wukosusudunese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martonaroniskola.net/userfiles/file/wowofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quiltingacademy.info/fckeditor/userfiles/file/96197572220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chatfieldfarms101.com/userimages/43350565030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.egavilanes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84713135705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613149ce55397---31433946303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24hnbc.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/gufebajutam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://multimetrics.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73148257675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=avatar+tamil+dubbed+full+movie+hdPDF 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_off0001147a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1147A 10632 bytes
SHA-256: 67a9a28d50866cfad2db39cff36f49b1b94ca8c578a28aedefaca6f2cf99ceb6
font_01_sfnt_off00012cc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CC7 20272 bytes
SHA-256: 328d3b0439540058fdbacb4749e9a45d0759cd71ce113ef87e3ad5079acd5d83
font_02_sfnt_off0001620a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1620A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1