Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d4597c5c0ef334d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-09-20 21:02:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 7cf491869939016b790928a785045e92 SHA-1: 6c274a222ab748cd3ab0f06e5403ae85b6e99ee2 SHA-256: 8d4597c5c0ef334d334c7a44d4a2d2c729b072d351b594d457db432fb70b8db3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains a link farm with multiple URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://pphjako.pl/userfiles/file/pokijemifikuzudezalogeb.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://intersat.lv/files/file/wawipofijujemetakesitaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptownfallschurch.com/uploads/files/zitomizerisizese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnzhongkui.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/uploads/file/061939508195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artedelvalle.cl/gal/files/file/87794530957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161414dd08d1c6---47380439964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xtremefitness.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ferabagonuzaponanutigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letsbelegal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bibal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdblue.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84061836600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onecre.com/images/content/files/nofikelasaxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adrfarysz.pl/userfiles/file/96828652037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://showpalmedical.com/userfiles/95171514964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mondoaudio.it/img/uploaded/file/luxotipafabopofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nordiskvillaventilation.dk/userfiles/file/34335658997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613acaed42289---58077249272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://standardamulet.com/files/files/73181576728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e872edef70---dububevezasirubumudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gccde.com/downloads/blog/geust/files/27407173454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iuoshili.com/upload/users/files/daraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://picart-personal.pl/fckupload/upload/file/dulutatutupefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lunaleo.pl/userfiles/file/lorum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130152b718f8---19552144220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=biochemistry+book+for+nursing+pdfPDF 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_off0000eba7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBA7 11356 bytes
SHA-256: c37816bad7d29e91908d16b9cddf7cf379a33196d9787223900cd51ae516edf8
font_01_sfnt_off000105dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105DD 16940 bytes
SHA-256: a42aad811cce361b7a7de050b08c1a092d9c7adeab9fac116044f9d19c2aed6a
font_02_sfnt_off000131b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1