Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ed50e434a57b397…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-06-29 11:31:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a6d1f36fae7651069507ed7264e40563 SHA-1: 88ab83dc9609e024e7e260c7af0e8341e1d87efd SHA-256: 8ed50e434a57b397377e7b848e473ec963d9775028e7d01cb752496dc2b6bef2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics indicate a pattern of using such sites to host or redirect to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=value+of+education
    • http://drironcat.com/images/file/34810139344.pdf
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/7852949967.pdf
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5388bba6e2---kuvefobotoxuz.pdf
    • https://summit-christian-academy.org/scauserfiles/files/62286307547.pdf
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lum171f9kggk98m43i5f7eokra/63126302456.pdf
    • https://aulacvn.com/upload/fck/file/bulemesixigazetovo.pdf
    • http://dolphinegypt.net/userfiles/file/6918705777.pdf
    • https://sca-kc.net/scauserfiles/files/sufatujuke.pdf
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a26e69c5c94---logixavunopotigizizo.pdf
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/xatepufifamegowidide.pdf
    • https://comobrew.com/newsite/images/user_uploads/file/58343498661.pdf
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3283b6d546---72618264239.pdf
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/zuvuj.pdf
    • https://bohemiamaestro.com/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62120463261.pdf
    • https://chptravel.ir/data/file/jipolowukexejanotodemure.pdf
    • http://mdbim.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/3243410136.pdf
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17c9cf236a25262f0427abc35aa0c567/8938645243.pdf
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a15fdea6ca157704ff6490d1129527a7/pizukajoro.pdf
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fsoojiv7cad45vha49ed6j46q7/vezaduzalonutetekakoku.pdf
    • https://roweryelectra.eu/app/webroot/uploads/file/16241847806369.pdf
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9c18a85d1c---merisurovekifame.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_off0000e35b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE35B 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb72.bin
1f220fcab5802c21e4f10265bdf43d2803785c3370a8b4f8c05ba86034326860
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB72 10272 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000112a0.bin
d74c18a93e539ed2d8c4ead7a8865df8a98b9bf6138a9030f28d12c1b2cc1b61
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112A0 16880 bytes