Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8052d223c58ae92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-12 21:45:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: b3103793e4f289f7a0b4d38e166a4ad3 SHA-1: a27863b566f9c226ed910d90a8e5eb9c0e876e91 SHA-256: e8052d223c58ae92be6d0a60eac237384d1e7bb492cd390763f51907d30ef84e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of JavaScript and numerous external links suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to facilitate the redirection or exploit vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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.zdravotechnika.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kumaju.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mountainbrookbuilders.com/home/mountain/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bibupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retrolondontees.com/userfiles/file/wenonovokemera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dnsbp.com/all4help/fckuserfiles/file/sifibutawodite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drnanemilk.com/tctt/sites/aaa/file/peputefapupib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161369e0c3aae3---80687135247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://priscar.com/documents/files/84302323596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ourcampuswindow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jufufarofak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eb6c0ad404---98374874992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://househouse.it/userfiles/files/konewol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pranabkumar.com/fckimages/file/70857910669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietkewebsite.btccorp.vn/uploads/files/welolatofuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designgaleria.hu/userfiles/file/lexigokadedejofejujonewis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210902044643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chambres-hotes-aube-bleue.fr/userfiles/file/15897737014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hidrometa.com/images_upload/files/fitoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreabulk.net/userData/board/file/nekefovifak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fertilizergranulatorprice.com/d/files/53235900429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisaarkinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/46758896710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s2ccaco2jc1o02e3f623o3orbl/kozisulexokir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camelliafb.com/uploads/files/202109060509265159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd5fa627107be6d5887179d66efdfbb8/80770501984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nvsrolko.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21898300588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613905ac993a7---remomivepur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stsmcc.org/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sejutel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midospa.com/upload/files/10760061129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniquehotelsolutions.com/files/others/xisodefatamefegavixoviwiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+convert+a+video+song+into+audioPDF 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_off0000bd5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD5D 16028 bytes
SHA-256: 5e9934c27c752619566122ac2f042262ae67ff919ce14104452b40e062146445
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6A1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000feb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEB8 10740 bytes
SHA-256: f3bd858a456d7746da5594beea551649b33eaccc5e7a131244a2f480f5e3683d