Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f794c0a17d7ff3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 23:58:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 217eca71a0c226ab22c0997481ec2660 SHA-1: c1985e26d7761edb66d7a04ff9827efb1d45131d SHA-256: 8f794c0a17d7ff3b0f27fe5abdbbc818261b8fe9d6af6fa0cfbe3f8fb9f65d3e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple unknown or potentially compromised domains. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 http://jjkxmy.com/upload/files/202109151426417559.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kbinteriery.cz/userfiles/file/51106673841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134c37e34336---mofago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aqualibramontois.be/fckdownload/file/retirokonibemojuwun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1mosref.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dejoxanotoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c10a67035b---4138138516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kiofruits.com/admin/uploads/files/lilixakakas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weighlessthisyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/saxubaduvig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tylbm.com/Upload/ckeditor/files/60306694464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hawkseyetravels.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rukorunuxuzipopas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/madezimunavewapegubol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ff8e9a4da1---81415900157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biogreeno.com/cms/ckfinder/userfiles/files/keropusefodebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkmeiqi.com/admin/ckfinder/upfile/files/gimedogiretanazavalob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poptheme.cn/uploadfile/files/20210901_112503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alcera.ca/userfiles/file/remek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasekurzy.cz/userfiles/file/dezusevamuraduzageseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanglassgroup.cn/userfiles/file/48760743485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boldogelet.hu/media/49171333096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahnil.com/userData/board/file/81342366816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=mi+android+no+recibe+mensajes+de+textoPDF 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_off0000d902.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD902 10848 bytes
SHA-256: a5123382cc7f08b90894bf1182f07314980acf0a02ad7c6523a1edd39e7898af
font_01_sfnt_off0000f200.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF200 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A12 18868 bytes
SHA-256: e7ed0db594272c48eb102f219b06bfc29b1fd015e027256258d11e8f77ed1e8e