Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ee23c5f433f756a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 08:55:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 3d6f79bef325a8be6d83617dbd8fa899 SHA-1: 392feabaf7461deb8dc52fda10f230549da2dbfe SHA-256: 8ee23c5f433f756adcd42913e3c28cf42516cdf9396680c573396f3f66b5669c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting domains, indicating it's designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://antwerp-reefer-tournament.be/argt/files/pinetiluwusus.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://przychodnia-felinskiego.pl/uploads/editor/file/26645775097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanzmendia.com/userfiles/files/xeporifopebatarepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iucecb.com/files/file/welesubiberakeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/025ca500a5cdd0a3060640d875557420/tozewilizebanidunak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b9a1bc7210---31507993186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4594634b3a9c287e8009040ee9bc290c/simaponugas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dollreunion2020.com/clients/4/43/4392dc7a9e9236654a628da0af121bbb/File/zevoweleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecsun-moscow.ru/docs/file/pomowiroraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33bd4c52fb93005686491e38d9c4ff98/zomobokagimedoramikijeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078bfdbaf0cd---lusijodibaxitidunisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da68fa179776efde6455388cc0782866/74179019807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.la-providence-ehpad.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8603224760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samsung-service-center.ru/uploads/files/29260927093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7356c4a881---rulul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982a861e4b8---zelemaluvodopuroretikeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchtextile.com/userfiles/file/38804243715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiaato.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210903_A630D8712A0E4B96.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neilreardon.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/95082487693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/velabezunitalukebixaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b24a47dcac6---nedekosevowenidavilavabiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lws-realestate.com/userfiles/files/pinonisab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engroupe.ca/aym_image/files/teximobababaraga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa23a21828b---dodofazimugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=functions+and+their+graphs+worksheet+pdfPDF 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_off0000d5ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000edfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDFE 17260 bytes
SHA-256: 84ecdb6a1f3e5050643beff6392bc3247177409a6a6afc7e7f653eec20f613af
font_02_sfnt_off00011a40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A40 11108 bytes
SHA-256: 112bb07fe63fcd8f65203116e4dfab109812343f37ffd71586b0547b63040a2b