Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8d33118da14da86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-10 15:51:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 59756d21c2f3b2e6245c0e76d4a317ac SHA-1: 0f92da20ac29284ab3ad5580d797008925687279 SHA-256: c8d33118da14da86b91920bc4d80d42215bf58e0a28a7f7811a08844cbe6d5c3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to external resources, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://skncn.com/u/files/70243031727.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ageddfjtj.pretty-match.com/upload/files/70519366911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a16897f297---92827674972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basisnomor.com/contents/files/poluvurad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lasfyy.com/uploadfile/file/20210904164312164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb3e0f1eef2fb1f2c64dd9ed448bc424/fixapurin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldcoil.com/uploadfiles/files/9885407323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joelcsimonesq.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/13171080811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautybybelief.com/admin/images/file/30876647474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khabul.mn/mmpa/userfiles/files/30149799707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changrung.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77896860962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136460a60d26---35377425624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designclarf.it/file/21101659769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insinkerator.us/images/uploaded/file/224055480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://incense888.com/uploads/files/202109030512013361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wanna-drive.nl/files/File/guzibosokomevofunexuvab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zzfcw.com/file/fkimg/file/33427070731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroyindustry.com/userfiles/file/japademoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hydro-tg.pro/upload/file/22526659654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huthamcauquanggiap.com/upload/files/metedirim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135953e68e88---binukazowebobaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalpolicycouncil.org/imagenes/file/77392825448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=descriptive+words+that+start+with+r+to+describe+someonePDF link annotation
    • http://zs.tom.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45447259178.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_off0000ddda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDDA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5EC 17248 bytes
SHA-256: 333050c6f85ed2e429e71bb15ac17e9f44b7bfbf0f1d927d9b1c474870fa5284
font_02_sfnt_off00012206.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12206 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 693d75cb8645e5f48f36d5dda34e73afcbf59788ee5e3dfe6e2e40c20f050a35