Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e61be603e3d373c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-07-05 17:15:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c4ded939bd5701d6a3cb0f5eb059bfaa SHA-1: 8596c7cdf3d0182f79853064c1e0838296333ac7 SHA-256: 8e61be603e3d373c20494e07932aa159811fc267ef2c8d2358af59cc08cbeb28
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, likely intended to host malicious files. Heuristics indicate a high probability of malicious content, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to trick users into downloading further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9940

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://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609794bbd3e40---2199082220.pdf
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/6593399907.pdf
    • http://www.mbk-montage.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86339465356.pdf
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d374047ac7---torafijidutab.pdf
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ecf6313fec---8416278830.pdf
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ssg2j4msulriipp3q7brtvnv9/98080655299.pdf
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d165ad7bb7---82689158854.pdf
    • https://smartcirclegroup.com/userfiles/file/nopawib.pdf
    • http://grupophi.es/uploads/files/fubesegewo.pdf
    • http://fence-alarm.com/userfiles/files/fifokopedunuk.pdf
    • http://vencedor.coop/images/admin/file/82342785669.pdf
    • http://mavelikaradiocese.org/rapha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62037486024.pdf
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce4a9dc6c9---85968128731.pdf
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58636cc56ab24ebdbfc4a20598d22fd1/46006421698.pdf
    • http://bahattinburyan.com/userfiles/file/foxoz.pdf
    • http://yaeram.com/userData/board/file/vafezefeludidoxesuda.pdf
    • http://cuahuyhoang.com/media/ftp/file/89597188132.pdf
    • https://autoparkalbanese.it/file/jivodunafijasuze.pdf
    • http://hncastlecable.com/d/files/xezuraxugazoropidiladu.pdf
    • https://pomacanthe-art.fr/imagebeforeafter/files/poroleloxuwukebip.pdf
    • http://halaljones.com/uploads/files/kixexipuboxo.pdf
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e570a58be2---nitigosizasosadukifevine.pdf
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c09b41fdfe59d1bb6744854c73035672/76870267690.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=death+note+episode+28+english
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c8f6.bin
16eb4dfd563eba48d72c2e47ef0e555f27c21fb6fc115d8cb626cc841fba2283
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8F6 16544 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3f5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3F5 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010c02.bin
5fd9db05315d0ce7840092982b00f9100854c1a97fd8e20a113b3dea38a0872e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C02 2196 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off000115d9.bin
2b244b2d7edd03c06f57f2586264ebb8ce6513e5c6bb3b6e39b0be1d944079a4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115D9 10900 bytes