Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f9ae13b88580a96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-15 06:34:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e67ee3499b46bc12a6ba3e731ced7026 SHA-1: 1d0965edddcd81a6a13ca4cb32fcd4e61592b650 SHA-256: 8f9ae13b88580a9672f3d579707fe4b292a520751a0499a626a6bcd9fea3d2fe
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains multiple links, some pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and others to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users into downloading content. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to deliver a malicious payload or phish for information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 http://thietbiantoanttk.com/uploads/files/52058873393.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161336cd287835---vopotogolejapekisizediko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songhandiban.com/uploadfile/file/2021090316295073499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etadelloro.it/images/file/96602979590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://everest-c.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95287305912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keyseries.us/userfiles/file/bunozenipugaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omgmediatank.com/userfiles/files/bavodewaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhixnktientien.com/Images_upload/files/24535832097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terrebleue.org/userfiles/file/95924238209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oodow.cn/upload/file/210912011810400715gg7pz0j6kdpr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namphuctourist.com/userfiles/file/94161518437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hferrynetworks.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210904_990AD89885A64476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triosms.com/userfiles/file/rijibetuzuxenajago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de592b343633dc27e93c62972c1ed555/95569537747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atputasbaze.lv/images/userfiles/files/fizako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138a23fafaf6---12361450800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyqjsj.com/UploadFile/file/20210907025248034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorus.rs/files/muzozife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazdalkodjokosan.hu/img/userfiles/file/30875876068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e3edu.vn/public/ckfinder/core/connector/php/connector.phppublic/uploadsfiles/gikuvefudorijofafovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knuhpharm.kr/userfiles/file/20210909065140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://margheritango.it/userfiles/file/bewajopobewirofuzaleke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suncables.co/images/file/lijiwokamirimikijumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitarasign.ir/data/file/nagojeligonawuzikal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=yaar+anmulle+returns+full+movie+download+720pPDF 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_off0000dded.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDED 11188 bytes
SHA-256: 02240475d4d0c2112cfc9bcb167b69c3f926a10f11c2b004a7bef568e781c75e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f832.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF832 17724 bytes
SHA-256: 12f6c3497217d3b242cb55d8a40735ed545738382d27c37e4e8d5830b0ec8e9c
font_02_sfnt_off00012597.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12597 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1