Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8eabc4d292630f05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-23 15:12:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 4e6480c7aed0c6e1b805e6c34171627c SHA-1: 12915c3f274ac94aaee732b02cd638b53c9234f1 SHA-256: 8eabc4d292630f05029f5d46f18e2eff591bfebee352cea2e6f853bae76c4835
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The heuristic 'SE_QR_LURE' suggests the document may instruct users to scan a QR code, further supporting a phishing or social engineering attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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
  • 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=best+qr+code+reader+ios PDF link annotation
    • http://sonhanint.com/uploadpic/sun/files/202109032036389353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extrastyle.ee/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80690666835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irodaszer.lukinserv.hu/file/27895798566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soojuspilt.ee/files/file/49332727430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1be4bcd2253695e7e5c3ae024946f6cf/24444553686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhavalaya.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kajiveranonajelukebiser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ac-kenigsberg.ru/files/file/68819772714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vlajkylevne.cz/UserFiles/File/91063753760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614a092db9605---7457004382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://299-45.com/CKEdit/upload/files/tiboginawawef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kozhencherrymtc.org/userfiles/file/26855867713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.me.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210908_045356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarissoft.com/img/userfiles/files/8128780327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmapmc.com/userfiles/image/files/bunipewuxovimevufanuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alienaquatics.com/home/gb/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56568139675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ageddfjtjgrade.pretty-match.com/upload/files/tijiruruxobonunogunovat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metalzilemboeventi.com/userfiles/files/fezekonilozokufamumukop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tahitotfalu.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuduzus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcolono.net/userfiles/files/jobajeguros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gearcon-eng.com/file_media/file_image/file/merogiruzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130ac07c7bb6---67986224701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duet-czluchow.pl/userfiles/file/nijizojikomozunobufezot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raegcafe.com/uploads/files/lebemetoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8073d70a655269cb18ecf46441ce4f80/2337937974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paillasse.hu/userfiles/file/gobikusebafo.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_off0000de8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE8A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f69c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF69C 17452 bytes
SHA-256: dc8de77ca6f808c7fb1329740671e607badd8ec6890d81ffbc0307562a7d0b96
font_02_sfnt_off00012443.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12443 10412 bytes
SHA-256: f518600c1f4e7732c6cab1b98ac4e27422c49f4637b31429dc0ed26702f2fc1b