Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8e09ec0bc223cc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.1 KB Created: 2021-07-31 08:26:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 329fb4c12e6fc92352dc19ece8971103 SHA-1: 25f404dd12ec7ff2af9f2d313a09988dca49770a SHA-256: c8e09ec0bc223cc8245ea52e8d83d3ead8fc690e4f63095b38065fb8997a53d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a Google feedproxy URL with a 'download' term further supports the lure of downloading applications.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9907

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af91f533a96---58148705377.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://namuvaldymas.lt/userfiles/file/61231141350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makesrealsense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vativa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techson-cctv.com/upload/file/64766556427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bravo-hk.com/userfiles/file/32030508557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palet-school.com/files/files/10124131986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b59fc74e5ed0cff3f9a5c4121dfa3f23/36258269003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agatanorek.com/files/file/memeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd8c0611078---lotukejirikepefud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160932b93c2d27---949235134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s2ipower.com/survey/userfiles/files/33914759687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609157f75bbfc---62644750910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventima.ru/userfiles/file/tuwixuvavus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.servicioscalibrados.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bdc835947e2dd4990ca052980f645a0/81151664633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6cd8be24facaae8b1d5379b8b3720af/33974719526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pngroup.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/femidawanijukifezur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenna-ski.pl/userfiles/file/32742821580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seanmore.com/userData/board/file/vanubutidojexaxofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landroverbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26952330985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parzenica-bialka.pl/userfiles/files/82067040028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songiadabinhphuoc.com/upload/ck/files/gobironaposaxazasazegiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54d42a028168c8465924adc79416fb6b/90663098417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caratow.eu/userfiles/file/lojutis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akademia-jedenastka.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/bimoberorux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/zupolubapemekeguduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160948ad48cebe---sesujajavukuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1cfb194eb---66014891285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=download+bigo+live+mod+apk+2019PDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f7e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7E0 18116 bytes
SHA-256: 6c4b8f7b9bc38b414ec78c22ad95fc0067263eb2eeafa6f2a676ebb27521e2b0
font_01_sfnt_off00012789.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12789 16304 bytes
SHA-256: 72b6d5534888ecec27fd68dccf88827b5fbc3510db23809d90398b76a33fedee
font_02_sfnt_off00013d7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D7E 11216 bytes
SHA-256: 5b2d180a094023203ed4f92123aa07ccb028e43bdbfc930cda8c16833c37391c
font_03_sfnt_off0001575e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1575E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1