Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ead17674da4ab5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-15 22:52:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 39fec887105113548061c6fed7439a03 SHA-1: e02160d92bb7f6758cc0e6b14f9a9ddce510beb6 SHA-256: 8ead17674da4ab5a3d367865c76bb22822a701caeb22047b6c82ebc8f2e9c098
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of specific content, but the overall structure points towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://tauben-buchmeier.de/kleinberliner-schuetzen/userfiles/files/95682002665.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://happy-playground.gr/uploads/_uploads/files/67511124063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1hdqud56tsa0ci5v8omp11h6ep/tudotekamoramofam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitoutdoorz.com/file/vBUCoInGRWzA7NCE.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rockyhotelsgroup.com/uploaded/files/mimozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzqljsj.com/images/upload/File/29479419372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paletydozahrady.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52910160979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uclerbaklava.com/resources/file/57772853023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fd275a30bbccc0a1f9714b32f9622cb/23964505144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro520.net/userfiles/file/16305860582121883611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starwindows.ie/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jesijakevozutirogojemog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lactopad.com/uploads/files/10734005173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayamedbursa.com/userfiles/file/buremofuxepokinemakireji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1k3v6j8jpj1vppgq8gt37pbjgq/27107374816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaparatt.com/images/File/40392726275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://numen-wow.com/userfiles/cloud/files/sasorukobor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://incomsistema.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53196918415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/wexizifimiboxapug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinhsuasolieu.com/media/files/32453537585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohmytour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210916_BC938764C0F67C87.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centreforeffectivecoaching.com/media/file/61481560911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laureysnv.be/uploads/files/wopivagimokabapisuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cyklo-wellness-penzion-palice.cz/content/mizusipeteve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firstcuwire.com/file_media/file_image/file/xodomadow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dc-07b6a75bc4d0.breakthrough-physical-therapy.com/userfiles/files/87665615921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diarch.in/WYSIWYGImage/file/zepijanelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssanadia.in/userfiles/file/69426583089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=bloquer+un+numero+sur+samsung+s4+miniPDF 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_off0000d4e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4E8 19912 bytes
SHA-256: 497444fd782f2953b56656b7e75e8b4ce14418eefa2a96b762be075a9d6c0890
font_01_sfnt_off0001072a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1072A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F41 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 6e7ae3cc685cd73c91ffaa4a74d10c8bea3a10f91d5335e54f998839be221fca