Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e8398efaf2b0dfd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-16 00:49:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 4e452f748b0d763c238e2d920e8213fd SHA-1: e86cc05b865d04df1665c1665e5ce4352a521ba3 SHA-256: 8e8398efaf2b0dfd0ae65e76e4739c400d41c6effcde2b0568a7daabcf46372e
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://gianniarnaudo.com/userfiles/files/somura.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://n2nnetworks.com/files/others/41601143764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b348c4ae2d---6319117502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magogaralbamoble.com/galeria/files/90936272111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaa1acmiejxr6d7fg.xn--p1ai/data/files/16998297141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingkady.com/uploadfile/files/74164603237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://everywheregenes.com/uploadfile/qu26_qu106_com/files/53614216819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/vixajejalakiriwowunumejew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yemany.com/yemfiles/files/dojopoxupetebazujejajizes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liebherr-tr.com/userfiles/file/28928202593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/knnaq81kbm15scq3q33ng4s034/dimaloderoparorezipatipod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinadesigndanang.vn/uploads/image/files/58518411117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b46ecfe60b851835a893dd8ae880f38/wetifikutijuzijatewev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sczct.com/up_files/file/7127751432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiscalonline.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/vobigelebudatovorewut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gedayapi.com/userfiles/file/xukajepefufazivulovuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euforbiabulgaria.gbinvest.net/uploads/pages/files/95956620084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b6d77de838---vikevetidejowosaninojonuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-reefer-tournament.be/argt/files/65896560332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.net/contents/files/gutujuduziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cobe-ing.it/userfiles/files/93335715741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technoauto.jp/js/upload/files/25887015768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windowsplusllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mokuxazipedunumosutezofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161400416bf7df---42762678351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=digital+mirage+fafnir+qr+codePDF 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_off0000ddda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDDA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5EC 17664 bytes
SHA-256: 7c63019675a75964ece5c092460aace18eec3be80eda52e114c99fd3191df41a
font_02_sfnt_off00012407.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12407 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 0a0812d633ee5371688ff210d0a786f9c03040b6d781286caabd7a616384bb90