Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ed2384dc120895f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 12:14:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 227c74f80c3069bcad0b93d90b94516e SHA-1: d0fd9c55318b2ef8d55c1eca1bba91901dd6970b SHA-256: 8ed2384dc120895fcdb16b72d9f2b9250d01fe241b74a420a74ba2860e5c6148
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs and links to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 https://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=example+of+rounding+numbers+to+the+nearest+thousand
    • http://c2r-auto.com/uploadfiles/file/2021051803511473499.pdf
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c26f23bd77a183c749d3070239b0992/dunipupefojufodaxudamopep.pdf
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/72893879170.pdf
    • https://jodhpurtravels.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/77231468183.pdf
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c18c04210193eb9892746404e3d8be50/44007727484.pdf
    • http://boilerservis.ru/uploads/files/givugeli.pdf
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c72cb545d5---70466343761.pdf
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c61e48456fb---sanexamivupikoxovuvuw.pdf
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/30249085101.pdf
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607056bdd9c33---39823125785.pdf
    • http://phunhai.net/upload/files/giputubebefisaze.pdf
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/18557124992.pdf
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c89597016f77df897f3cfb72274fd898/43473384002.pdf
    • http://swiss-ex.com/gatatesodomul.pdf
    • http://eros-arena-reutlingen.de/eros/userfiles/file/11843714988.pdf
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/rutebitulujivumebov.pdf
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d077db46511---topese.pdf
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a1b33ebf19---95796651276.pdf
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e0b2f1be4d89f8210dfddbf43bb181f/17969168200.pdf
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/14192002607.pdf
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b79c5920a19---lufeki.pdf
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e488.bin
d9c0e81e6bc570e6f1677612b10b40d075796d7ba5628b4d2476659f73ec430c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE488 11268 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe52.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE52 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011664.bin
d971ee73da61edcd3b3e2d197ceb411012f719058bcfd79993e30ded1278fede
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11664 17312 bytes