Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e2404ebf62930a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 17:12:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b6611e03b03ad3250cb6cd236800d335 SHA-1: 588ada3afa7162844ee805f4aa934c62ad7a2b7c SHA-256: 8e2404ebf62930a5e9dfeede7e85bacd75e5e5dba70588d85e27bb28171fbcdc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, many of which are designed as link farms. These links likely serve as a lure to download further malicious content, as indicated by the ClamAV detection and ML classifier flagging it as a phishing trojan. The presence of embedded URLs and the structure of the PDF suggest an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cuisinart+prepexpress+manual+food+processor PDF link annotation
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b760f0ecac7---14124504852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herningbadintra.dk/app/webroot/upload/files/noxuvukos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yilip.net/userData/board/file/54342661909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekolojikweb.net/upld/userfiles/file/2861397777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gifarlcm.com/upfiles/editor/files/galetipirilofowog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cb5439d334---37119090771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liur-krd.ru/userfiles/file/56465801574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madison62alumni.com/clients/e/e8/e84cd6a5166dbe8c5f6852bff763f4b2/File/sepasuxumafif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjallstar.com/upload/file/97505210487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archissimo.eu/userfiles/files/94761556278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wjcopy.com/upload/files/bekure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szrealty.net/uploadpic/2021-5/file/2021050816090873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608827c88868c---33809302099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16103bbed3a41a---71641066159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chemonova.com/FCKeditor/file/raduvozefofuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pincailight.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021071810380173499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bd407e0d6967aafd5411cd7c323db04/76565690247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woorymart.com/userData/board/file/24311203045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g7d54jtkmuok83ove7l6kvk563/peraliperonaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brazilairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/minep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congtyvima.com/images/Download/sunafupikidekumegonoxiruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celesteandtorsten.wedding/images/file/pipagowuritumosasafexude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gldbirdgel.com/user_img/files/21219024778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderkiwicafe.com/uploads/files/72214841636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediaget.com/userfiles/files/46092091219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000debd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEBD 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 494fb365972c21f83c60a98422ca1f28221fff462488f4f6e6d71033622d686a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f862.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF862 17244 bytes
SHA-256: 9d98bf4b71e19be9ef2fc7feb1192538fa4eb1c6dd00448a3687b5853c355371
font_02_sfnt_off000124c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1