Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8fe00bb7b95f5f41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-13 17:47:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 389d01eb90133679884c74e9a674e44b SHA-1: b235228f4830d8faad22f9984f000aaaf3f2791f SHA-256: 8fe00bb7b95f5f41b08721411f4a250249d2c066c3f904ad4f95c912172f095c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, designed to redirect users. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a malicious intent to lure users to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://istruttorecinofilo.it/userfiles/file/vadolizodito.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xcheck.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/57675796947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newgrids.com/userfiles/file/53640271137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metallpress.info/files/jurulerogamojaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parentini.it/userfiles/files/57207812818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa4ca991b5899fed43817ddf5b36cbaf/42795232842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizit-k.net/uploads/editor/files/45333982671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asavn.vn/uploads/userfiles/files/zezoliwarasikajaxabupog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenbins.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82709858598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superbarter.sk/media/file/samusevifiradu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21c590c3151027d2119c1b8e4b6df9c1/nigotirogoxipuxeragokiguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogozaty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39410270272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161339d83326d7---zebaduxapisil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexusinternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/kosumuzagalezizulujefupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tianlanip.com/filespath/files/20210909185137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujieshubao.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021091314553373499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhunikjewellers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96807591472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138377e18881---bixevozokurawepedegav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://footballsod.com/images/ck-uploads/files/zejuxuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d564d84a33---gidajufan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontogepszerviz.hu/editor_up/kogijosafanepebow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sithome.com/upfiles/file/20210913222416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.civilhospitalpalampur.in/img/uploads/files/1873071744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://md-servicios.com/userfiles/file/fitenozepumabuzisito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=smule+vip+free+download+2021PDF 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_off0000e121.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE121 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f933.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF933 18684 bytes
SHA-256: 587bed898fdf03f1ef61766ce2c2f5c86bf713b9896612f81b7ce49521d6a26c
font_02_sfnt_off0001299f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1299F 11016 bytes
SHA-256: 22aa4b004bae8cb6a58700fb80958e8b702ec3fc6f857066dbb216eee390da75