Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e5921d87d6f416d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 09:17:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 5be85fbfd43de663bc2811c0cf75b9b7 SHA-1: 8a0ea3316aed04aff5169b9f2c50e2122030766d SHA-256: 8e5921d87d6f416d7c60704123542e57b3920dcbf888b1abc1af2296a933bec7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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 https://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+convert+pdf+to+booklet+format PDF link annotation
    • https://nolimitscenter.be/peausitive/images/FCKeditor/file/24149278180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowenlawmt.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/33549587115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleanking.net/userData/board/file/46052890793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutbephottaihaiphong24h.com/upload/files/10928713247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingscolley.com/uploads/files/putukifojobaridutenotavij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schachverein-marchhoefe.ch/fcsr/news/upload/file/65990270106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0992dd6cc2---zinijoteretumoxiwoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cka-shiba.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nivix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mbc322nbs0g1r3ggvo37dcl2s9/funevezotarumedob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kasekimi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d68557ad5---52267609615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/2395644387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manpukuorder.com/uploads/files/nisikeruwizupufasujezov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e22c1d3442be3b09b8d099744f716f6/vijemixozimawegibotanet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbm-mova.by/images_from_html_editor/file/11901512343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acta-mobilier.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sivizugori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haidangpc.com/contents/files/80781489589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16129a0bd0cc9e---27811882880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160852cb87b77a---jorar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e448cebd0a1---65120601362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608532d430bea---lonixarinupeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160711833cd9ea---reguwir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alapan.org/fckimages/file/64115539070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzdsbg.com/uploadfile/1621224937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursakaynak.net/userfiles/file/12928452506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.egavilanes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91061833425.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_off0000d7b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7B0 17416 bytes
SHA-256: 904396e61397914e16f4575f0487a5aa42316a073f04c0559aa6d84ef732eb14
font_01_sfnt_off00010498.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10498 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 1893f463f2b3312a5f4a80c4da9352f221bf61a77d9b10ec863a1c70ec8f1b08
font_02_sfnt_off00011d9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D9A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1