Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8e4ace536b7a638…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-13 07:32:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 162255d1bf3eac064fc784a7fae8b2df SHA-1: cdd21318ed78b86d3d1c51767537288affc4bee7 SHA-256: c8e4ace536b7a6381bd8710250d4c02883c3a79dd313b6cec4514f70f3f869aa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 https://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=jiang+ziya+full+movie+english+dub PDF link annotation
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tm3krt5nc8dblvq7pjnv9tqec4/24400757506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billagelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/petiweregijewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andhimazhai.com/images/files/bebijonemagawalisuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moda-minulosti.cz/docs/momin/file/60088150759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rent2day.ca/ci2/userfiles/files/desadotitipafobip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalilak1.com/userfiles/file/rokitaferasikaramorokesep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/babeniburokajesanosex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seowonbattery.com/files/fckeditor/file/1146794557613ae002cf941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b3ab6a4308---puxiwababu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://embassyinvietnam.com/webroot/img/files/xukazatuxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holidayservicemarsala.it/userfiles/files/48685305598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckrestaurantgroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76990198308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jajugroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58241814555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://albawadiroad.com/userfiles/files/91691639459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofranzoni.eu/userfiles/files/3043311616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lrm.mcdonalds.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/miraxajomonorikadikav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tieclangman.com/Images_upload/files/pibiwapekudakaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenteriyaki.com/uploads/files/goposisum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ftha.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75797701384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrarontani.it/userfiles/files/80816259574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138ecdda879f---bonudevirijewubavelevogab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcarnet.com/home/sandbox/domains/hkdance.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rabotitamipuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonitomov.com/picture/file/76514960658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bnbcostaverde.it/userfiles/file/31952978003.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_off0000bd00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD00 18772 bytes
SHA-256: 3fb7ae4df1f71741105407466ec40d27e6c9c5dea2e2746d9a9e1560fc431437
font_01_sfnt_off0000eeb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000106cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106CD 11076 bytes
SHA-256: ab31e6ebc51172108210d6debfa8dc3b7404708105bc5535ba9c0d19c1e41866