Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8dbee54dead30ec4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 06:58:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 85e17e53c2f701a2f8b276226af0ffcf SHA-1: b7a8050bb37c920ef065d07ab1eb7b4a4c32c9bd SHA-256: 8dbee54dead30ec45250ed4d6ba54340ad5e5f2eb9967d706c7d984d4ba393d9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, some of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external, potentially malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 http://zhouzhuank.com/v15/Upload/file/202181958564245.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cfacgroup.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/81164971067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alisawedding.com/upload/users/files/penisisamiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/67493853830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/589vk2kkfu3hakkh167vm9b6gk/jinol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orvosvalaszto.hu/uploads/files/kisodaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hochrainer-elsner.at/upload/files/33778519612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24df162b0bbad74bd30479c9a0861ed9/fixepalupedadurogovaziwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamcc.com/UserFiles/files/ferotilanewuxofolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/gupepifuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blokhol.com/upload/files/sobukiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngonluathan.com/images/ckeditor/files/tipivebikebikeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qpt57joo99hmb26g6c1p8mds0k/30293780820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wumusk.com/asset/uploads/files/dazavokebekosapube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e082723980c---memisuwaxurupifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonfiremadigan.com/uploads/fckeditor/file/48662566824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ffb0338cf---75281060840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindicav.com.br/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dugogixevesibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linpus.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/nebezumalexojaturopulas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nt9tln5i5i28fvs0tvh9phgir1/9806107270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricoconsultingattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vufazatizulawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084814218251---83239228999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doucetplasticsurgery.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8903160517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ooui87obi9ss0o91sr43or6eu7/72407378682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=jee+main+march+attempt+answer+keyPDF 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_off0000e0b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0B5 10756 bytes
SHA-256: bef62034e76d1682e9792170addab25c684f29dd5200c7f5e649f49af31d3990
font_01_sfnt_off0000f95a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF95A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001116c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1116C 19788 bytes
SHA-256: 79f0585b0a9ae73cda41ca767348ba5931b31a587bee9c2f7b2dc2f521dc3369