Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8e5e6b5eca4e5d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 05:14:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 7032b30b02e16c258f338f65e61f48d1 SHA-1: 29ddd51f1639ca55743d1eff7fc4781e62f646a7 SHA-256: a8e5e6b5eca4e5d27252e287c669afb7cf9550a0fd29647d6bedf2302b659058
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malware. The presence of a visual download button further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 https://benjamindreyer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9088e76c3790a84a3d568543d13cca9/nenagifu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-nederland.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lupoxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growyourmoney.in/userfiles/files/76968058774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemculture.com/userfiles/file/16814787033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092096209c41---kuwurelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicolari.it/userfiles/files/81774126548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungtinjsc.vn/upload/FCK/file/xiwezirigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3ed93bc23f---52144879573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dd8d37843d---67249014100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7632c07089---2530709024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160981e201eb82---90857451340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viettelhaiphong.me/data/dulieu/files/58312857197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cobe-ing.it/userfiles/files/mekemekituxebadajaxixiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/23134286323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengnabei.com/uploadfile/file///2021062422484192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d5aa5f5b6430c182b6e88e21a6c1f10/99935024972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=fast+and+furious+7+movierulzPDF 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_off0000b366.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB366 10768 bytes
SHA-256: f1d9f313f3fe2ae42254491a5e2cbef27cf7e88af946fa4359d4977d816d6fc9
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC3F 16416 bytes
SHA-256: 2409c4d441c9a7e9b6e497ad4135d22ceeca930c6b91ea4a88603e4b5c1f9af0
font_02_sfnt_off0000f73c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF73C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1