Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8608d541f55dbf4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 15:59:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 1a8b3ebabaa6ee32f9d5c40f3ec15edd SHA-1: 376406ad7226db6bea8b5a8ffe784da679db5449 SHA-256: a8608d541f55dbf4eab2cdf267f58bbb306cf13cb6af05b9c739f2bfc4042e29
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm. The embedded JavaScript stream and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for SEO manipulation or to serve malicious payloads. ClamAV also detected this file as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hatsune+miku+rhythm+game+android PDF link annotation
    • http://hightopeducation.com/cms_uploaded/file/fobotejevawagofasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133539944f17---91532017372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matchedtubes.de/userfiles/file/50154428291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valeaflorilor.ro/img/uploads/file/kadoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hk-keber.de/images/file/gonitajelegesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/makamedar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veszpremlizards.hu/_user/file/29608913163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimobertoarchitetto.com/userfiles/files/50388704076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garderoba.sk/images/_file/vititenerupozimasakep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161319a0f71874---depazizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohappy.org/userData/board/file/13348375071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kantoromega.pl/userfiles/file/tifumim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f5ae0cc29b1a2b48d11533a755f749c/369989584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.park-seversk.ru/other/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xaditamagiletuvekigiwep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alummaswaja.com/yii/sdbalikpapan/home/images/upload/files/xiruwofipukedafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiron-ventures.com/chiron/home/img/upload/files/210905142051625654gwktx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointswestliving.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/botetutili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncvpte.in/userfiles/file/xuwijadovimerot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8096ecba5379093bc324eb38d382b99/soribojedimuvodofedoxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinemidias.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78521876865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcyy88.com/userfiles/file/2021091313585773499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifebeachvilla.com/uploads/image/files/10055148204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dgtrans.co.th/login/ckfinder/userfiles/files/minenajemuzeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161373f642e248---vefujixuvotabup.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_off0000f3a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3A4 18364 bytes
SHA-256: d67b971f681cecc375e0da3b4ed85e0bf12ad6c6059ea9d0646bc972c8da2db3
font_01_sfnt_off000122f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122F4 10948 bytes
SHA-256: f12c6b24d3f4d306d416cdb1eaae3b3734717c96058a8b95bf1c18a9ecc3ad6f
font_02_sfnt_off00013bee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BEE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1