Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e0e962f75ee2b23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 07:35:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 171d50119ba44d89832c0958ea1d9139 SHA-1: 1b38a8d79d75d2cab1a4f7e60b12d574cfc098a3 SHA-256: 8e0e962f75ee2b231f39a47e22ad9e88604a5a6b23a5a3ec0d278b56dd08c7a0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a deliberate attempt to create a link farm for SEO manipulation or to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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 https://nezrenpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/nitidezarel.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://watthaistuttgart.de/userfiles/file/51950844049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limberhurstgallery.com/imageuploads/file/voremedugokugatibup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burlingame.com/wysiwygfiles/file/viludiwejetugevufuboxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://australiancaravancentre.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96015991054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.cz/data/cms/file/guvufolegidugodese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160858ddf53845---zurarowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://himalayakebab.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/25967121645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhavalaya.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xomamoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b836dd8fe94---62667034738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608518121d224---dipewuxedapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polymadeniyaglar.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/gewikagadagujaweva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarica.com.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74215762438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071293b3cd0b---2862950433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aci-immobilier-douai.fr/userfiles/files/59000257688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsutae-f.com/js/upload/files/kosikavawisuwezako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fluitec.fr/ressource/site-image/files/45507199864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kenshopvn.com/uploads/files/44205651706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsfeed.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/91508090859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posicert.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-11/20210811020318733064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trendybiz.in/usersfiles/file/53773158703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videofilm-tv.ru/content/File/46265450468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=assignment+on+garments+industry+in+bangladesh+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_off0000d8f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8F6 17956 bytes
SHA-256: b0bc8f7f8be201b9359c1ebc04a8f512753342c3c94fc778f64dc8ccdc1f77c2
font_01_sfnt_off00010789.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10789 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011fa0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FA0 11280 bytes
SHA-256: b6801e129d766e1fa5e3faa7d552ff735ea38d9012b574b109cde30c985b5f4d

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