Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e6f4b626ab57fb0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-09 09:23:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 3f52abdbb42166a40cdfea52cbc3717f SHA-1: 918bf6c54c574c023e0732dab273f227d9a2424f SHA-256: 8e6f4b626ab57fb0b83b3948b9e93fcacb746afe536a9c10d8ab50ae8468bcd1
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of an IP address literal in a URL and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a malicious document designed to lead users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 8

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=apk+mod+tennis+clash PDF link annotation
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f9cdca218c---suriduvojojofufuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139a32c1c046---tureju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutbephottaihaiphong24h.com/upload/files/xolunanosuxoxebag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613139c503746---nefarisumedunub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamalcar.com/userfiles/file/16493299341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdes.in/uploads/1780115414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toolsatool.com/userfiles/files/45891570358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gutachterbewertung.de/userfiles/file/papatulozoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gjbbang.com/userData/board/file/54693420830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purepoem.com/resource/docContentImg/file/2021-09-04/4122ff0d1adf58b989f38c5c7acd67c1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evrofurnitura.by/elax-furnitura.ru/uploads/files/96814639907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161308cd9d174d---69609452472.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://booklandbooks.com/userfiles/file/vigebegisaget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petrduchek.com/files/mixajigogoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinarioilghirlandaio.it/userfiles/files/24423472619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyosung-gulf.com/uploads/file/61033467234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://first-group.kr/ckupload/files/zobiwamivenexedinojewodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxmeterthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69472999102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unixsensor.com/uploads/files/202109071755346356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jobtiara.com/files/files/roderekefewefalisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lngpetro.com/userfiles/file/devabisapafizad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkxhjfc.ltd/uploads/files/20210909031102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fnathservices.com/upload/file/sobedazoxokugixujesamudot.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_off0000d401.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD401 17868 bytes
SHA-256: 415edc651bfa6c68a7f2b7312dfd72a71eb8951a615402780ec8e0d8f2130a81
font_01_sfnt_off00010236.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10236 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A4D 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 68f4f9bfd9a03b9c5527bb628c99df27b3daf9e4c27ee0be6ded46ccccdf3b2d