Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e338cfdf12e8ffe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 11:33:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c5b378c6b0da9c335e80f766da63a118 SHA-1: 93e07772348811740d266d124cd7316c33b5fce0 SHA-256: 8e338cfdf12e8ffeb7e962c359386124f84a6aff92030fbbcacceaf72c97ee2f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

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, directing users to multiple potentially compromised websites hosted on disposable or suspicious domains. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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 http://hutbephottaihaiphong24h.com/upload/files/14844425765.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://granite1962.com/clients/869125/File/wufunulenumozufejup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c85b6b61975---96111034802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d7cbf7b630---bonavuveronomosowigeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ac-kenigsberg.ru/files/file/guzasaremuduteboxapuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shhs69reunions.com/clients/e/e9/e92da0bc0099326815942f81a5c18dfc/File/gigebowilewon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bde2b7f8477a442a03fe2b3db3e70ce8/takolekebulibevoxajudafep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8963b3e9d4---bapemimorafumeluxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cserepakciok.hu/xdata/file/53207152981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832a94934af---balawamujemopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westernstudioservice.com/admin/userfiles/file/83965441493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insidethedigitaltrend.biz/userfiles/file/vamowalukutuziwebitada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c303430ae0c98fce1f69087b3c8b9327/runumefudokutusegusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afro-safari.com/upload/files/nijuguvagixuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiwatopup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/legemipubakimevudajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anvlaw.com/userfiles/file/13649285789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832bbd765cd---68101233361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dribblebar.pl/userfiles/file/xaxadeximos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8dee651d69---67691768045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobathware.com/app/webroot/img/files/bovuwasenafokafoxefevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reparationmobile.net/userfiles/file/10224148336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przychodnia-felinskiego.pl/uploads/editor/file/tunapunofofalota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16113fb0c3b3f7---dalirowazen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankamet.com/userfiles/file/jikeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b43183e2d95---sekefokulog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westhigienia.hu/editor_up/nozepen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc3a96cbd2---wakudugakinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=three+and+four+times+tables+worksheetsPDF 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_off0000d5c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5C8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eddf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDDF 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 67a4d2cc5279e01315629f630bfd0697f7e79a98501251846066852b832ac233
font_02_sfnt_off00010743.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10743 16848 bytes
SHA-256: 0cea97f1a75c9e906716217223951f9216a521db99ddcc3d7a7efa0bc7350ff1

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