Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ee6c16401100c8b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-09-19 11:37:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f6c60890bf4d3574515b3dce4cc2f9ef SHA-1: 6e8639aa3ac8b11cf6f9a38dced38a8fded3ff1b SHA-256: 8ee6c16401100c8b9e25f175e9b7aae080a0496feb0a82514b423b1f03ea0a3f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis point to a common tactic of using link farms to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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=cumulative+bar+chart+excel
    • https://www.gico.ge/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33203273717.pdf
    • http://paradisetnl.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210908_CD48825D09B4D521.pdf
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/36991605870.pdf
    • http://dioblina.eu/userfiles/file/jepafagik.pdf
    • http://xn----itbbfrdrdbd4bgy6gi.xn--p1ai/webroot/files/files/roluzususuviwo.pdf
    • http://runbo.net/upfiles/files/16310531696101.pdf
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e88e73ccd3---borubunorapez.pdf
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af7rhcp06o608vbmn3cnvlehb7/55924700068.pdf
    • http://stihoplet.by/upload/editor/files/tagefomawoxogenazivobugoj.pdf
    • http://hengfengpaper.com/filespath/files/20210916114736.pdf
    • http://mobitransjogja.com/files/namofoturafokariboxidoje.pdf
    • https://shen-su.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/govomemofogiwoja.pdf
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a51610016aa95ae1752ceb0171e039f/kamoju.pdf
    • https://ascend.sut.ac.th/ce/2017/src/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16111519807.pdf
    • https://mingyi-lock.com/data/file/userfiles/files/48547968509.pdf
    • https://brakos.it/file/podubasatewenokinigameju.pdf
    • http://nedvizhimost-v-sharm-el-sheikhe.ru/uploads/files/60994029151.pdf
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/dezomamozasapoxuzutufan.pdf
    • https://aviseco.ro/userfiles/file/waxojaxelijobiwamudewu.pdf
    • http://auswallendorf.de/userfiles/file/4501213720.pdf
    • https://protectname.xyz/whoisprivacy/userfiles/files/19726161422.pdf
    • http://synowka.pl/galeria/file/wopofilurexipevavopenawu.pdf
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140c89dc7fa6---42553466663.pdf
    • https://conrays.ru/f/data/loladejo.pdf
    • http://goksirkrupskimlyn.pl/img/upload/files/67510825076.pdf
    • https://b2cdemo.tickets.com/content/files/67392094435.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_off0000f72d.bin
da3e07caea3bd33b13aea639a212d8ac86c3eda74e3001a452ad5e13bb797d56
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF72D 17668 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012543.bin
758afb1b60d3cc173b1ff77a4c874e176cc6c577785fb8df13a4ddf5c382de96
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12543 10544 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013d52.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D52 16792 bytes