Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8c1447b60820ea5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-09-26 05:04:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 123e8b59c79aab340ca10f9f2fb198b5 SHA-1: b88b2c5278156cc0cc98081db5d946571aaaf224 SHA-256: c8c1447b60820ea5df4c3d2e043cf35a600fe2546589791d523c8e8a126806d6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs suggests an intent to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161388b96dc848---vijuwi.pdf
    • http://bukharaatlanta.com/sites/default/files/file/50709022945.pdf
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06865c5ccaa8294556d0e36df4d56b09/29151557620.pdf
    • http://energo-winstal.pl/userfiles/file/nazezipizadimetiziki.pdf
    • http://thietkewebbacninh.com/webroot/img/files/62075461040.pdf
    • http://shtaket46.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/sumukibune.pdf
    • http://brmxn.com/userfiles/file/20210924082544_3igvcf.pdf
    • https://foundationkuzmanov.com/files/86051651024.pdf
    • https://jetaime-shop.com/files/zigolum.pdf
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/busofuluje.pdf
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614f753594f16---naxomejiwul.pdf
    • https://www.khaosanpools.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70786898281.pdf
    • https://fluffy-chins.com/images/file/vokesevus.pdf
    • http://home-hj.com/up_photo/file/darokakoxafizejakebumepa.pdf
    • http://mtcongnghiepxanh.com/upload/fckimagesfile/67879340664.pdf
    • https://trouver-une-ssii.com/img/pics/files/92621608042.pdf
    • http://wpklaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/24103082500.pdf
    • https://havadisname.com/upload/ckfinder/files/pijadigabo.pdf
    • http://starwindows.ie/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pudotibupeberoxoriv.pdf
    • http://colorfusion.us/admin/images/file/65597059320.pdf
    • http://oa30us.com/userfiles/file/jetenibaporapirimoj.pdf
    • https://texigo.tw/upfile/files/2021/09/26/11177005743.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=scary+teacher+3d+mod+apk+hack+download
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ae24.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE24 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c636.bin
d3aa3798154112be7ab192af8b5e63db3cc55e6935dd432ca7235ea75490c0d3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC636 16256 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef7f.bin
a58ac02d87a639c111e6a6eabe4c83672869a279a61f01c2f8062a77d1660006
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF7F 11056 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00010930.bin
01cd0e4798e93fb086042d610f43ddeed7bf091af48aa863f5c4a4f61b651684
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10930 16232 bytes