Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e2d94b680256d6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-09-19 15:56:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ff90dcc727927557672781f1dc29d05d SHA-1: 42e0000ee5b7496827f60155a8fe0504145eca02 SHA-256: 8e2d94b680256d6a04c685c963482a7b6b97c3f7cae448e78ad29e7f6efacc71
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. The presence of 'utm_term=pubg+pc+free+steam+key' in one URL suggests a lure to attract users interested in free gaming keys. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pubg+pc+free+steam+key PDF link annotation
    • http://cuacuontoanthang.com/media/file/jukurajudavadoliketubewob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americansemitruckparts.com/d/files/xedovadoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvutheapec.com/upload/FCK/file/39528657735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satesayap.com/contents/files/nanovedew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rainbowprinter.com/app/webroot/files/file/11167471545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoaisonland.vn/upload/files/muvoraxodufozejonigetanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h1aeekk.xn--p1ai/files/file/94418609602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vongtaygiay.net/media/ftp/file/77916958632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146edb2666ac---wakit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.themixchange.com/userfiles/files/ruxeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27ce1aaf04fc85d949ed94d8b5d1f1f2/68101205851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ardiinerkh.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/34652124892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146d92c92aa0---39213414262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monographie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tonazeputenukisazelifoxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenerowe.kbo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58350995691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caror.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16564731340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avsa.org/sites/default/files/images/files/69771606231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dwitunggaljaya.com/sitefiles/file/nozavevep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19cd88d319bf740841fd4cff6d0eed54/8117722599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajeah-intl.org/fck_image/file/76085561696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blondel-bois.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40753794316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telegid.tv/userfiles/file/55060297764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wgadget.com/file_media/file_image/file/3030702050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leinerpakgelatine.com/survey/userfiles/files/44683405499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burmeseburmilla-allevamento.com/userfiles/files/5089284976.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_off0000bf05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF05 18320 bytes
SHA-256: 56f1246693a8f0fb95917a0f61f158d9d6b93e6dc8325e1a02b26f023ddc499e
font_01_sfnt_off0000eeb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB0 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 66143a8981f38ecd3042a24f7cc4f8db2a576574cb08b0efc5e402aaaca87f3b
font_02_sfnt_off000107e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107E0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1