Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f6e8d718f227ef0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-20 07:52:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 6db38600dfaf7409343fcda3f0df4447 SHA-1: 4ac735e925f59e0fc14f9dc2be809cb96f034ce9 SHA-256: 8f6e8d718f227ef0341e8d62a913b126a98f68c7c9eded80948c9746f418f8f5
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Numerous embedded URLs and link farms were detected, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a malicious intent to trick the user into downloading a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=chrome+os+on+android+phone PDF link annotation
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f78e556aaf---72557901873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efsanepin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/30867873084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161400c61a1130---72193232868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terremeraude.com/userfiles/file/96412470310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easy-sleep24.de/shop/images/editorfiles/file/galelozaretalesum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truongthanhco.vn/webroot/img/files/sesimufedonejebafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturpix.ch/cmsimages/file/sugitimowuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kprmk.pl/userfiles/file/kemafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaffebba2apgigwiiececnggk9e4k.xn--p1ai/pict/file/24988921753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ddbc4c5e15---vipaxenavegajawolagazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chengzechem.com/upload/files/9254742615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161412030b02f4---7357588867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141839f520b3---risukobusezadav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fpole.ru/sadm_files/rutaxifudovadefabesof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saikekanglun.com/filespath/files/20210902144304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--jt2b56wn0ap2a.com/upload/file/202109131404596475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaatlantida.com/userfiles/file///nabonixidex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2da6027bb874d9fdc8d605e83f12d666/13454165078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z-him.ru/userfiles/file/rimutalagamexariluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://millionsdiscount.com/mo_images/files/27091913723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jvlegacyhomerepairsmd.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/nivimilonenolowut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efuturesthai.com/uploads/files/5678798663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/37818099853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e12c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE12C 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 33abf866dabe1130888ad7a8a14e6a778ca627546ac349fc233edc5581fc221b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8FE 18588 bytes
SHA-256: 531f9a15ac67d9215ee608fbe3c4b97c4d35b07da5e4d780866a7a3ebce0cdbe
font_02_sfnt_off000128de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128DE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1