Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e550450770e11b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-10-03 16:34:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: b7165d80ff42c199b4fc1ebadd668183 SHA-1: 52ed3eef4c176c4f1fb179079edec1436b39b442 SHA-256: 8e550450770e11b5739bcf5e37925a9b1af2e313504eefeee5c2d55a36f2aad5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites, leveraging techniques common in spearphishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://pngroup.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79760489447.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://onlinemidias.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/newotizinimerix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apatity.verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/raburoninorudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divorce-difficile.fr/userfiles/file/64325879418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gadesign52.com/uploads/files/202109302252371634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://h16hr15k-h19hr37urn.com/contents/files/tipomovinobaratabiwowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strojsteel.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88894483368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazdalkodjokosan.hu/img/userfiles/file/50203076265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodfortune.hk/UpLoadFile/file///38333191068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeopathyhongkong.org/files/pojixuxepewivugakorud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crediramasrl.it/public/file/jefabifulasaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132fed759cdd---tuxuselopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumosushingrill.com/uploads/files/rulabekuvasawijiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n0dvua5g14bdkhi43qcpnn1oj5/kakolawibononugelujer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mercuresamuichaweng.com/admin/file/43426416723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolkatanagariksammelan.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37954938829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proektasis.gr/admin/spaw2/uploads/files/kabikalizoraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquatherm-graz.at/files/74523770568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snbedu.com/uploadfile/file///2021092718494347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ca7e6cc8fc---dorikujila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonblainville.com/userfiles/files/xevipibogajapakebir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613631878987d---lenub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://girc.ncue.edu.tw/ckfinder/ckfiles/files/90109781503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjerkelunden.org/content/files/userfiles/file///33009565395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelcorona.ro/files/38455920753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=say+thank+you+in+koreanPDF 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_off0000b497.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB497 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 5f9ff27ded1a985383aaad18c4a9b260ab2cbd37ba936fb41d9f5552bb3234c3
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC11 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e423.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE423 14892 bytes
SHA-256: 634d479eb8c0ef3621d4fa684af9568a966880d9217a29413581a01fd4798a57