Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8382ec797ba3b34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.7 KB Created: 2021-09-25 21:56:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 912ab22afa6eb1a191ad97372ca8e183 SHA-1: a4afb433b7ef591111c0fc8f672b53578d7e2fba SHA-256: e8382ec797ba3b348a405c8dbe8bacf6b52776c66660b92a1c8b464f1344bc99
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for redirection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL structure and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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.southforconstruction.com/frontend/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pujezitawamimow.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://daglichtfilters.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22188715923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nayyaralidada.com/alpha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70717080587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kavernoklub.com/campannas/file/91003772015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----itbbfrdrdbd4bgy6gi.xn--p1ai/webroot/files/files/87854773687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-journal.com/media/file/79572364888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161408ed405a26---wijeruweve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://union.travel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xobufedivekagadijobokisip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harrodsrentacar.com/public_html/userfiles/file/18875457513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodatnojamstvo.com/userfiles/file/midawunegokuwavibozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dh-cell.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42098716914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vatlieulamnha.com/media/ftp/file/poxefekobig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windowsplusllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21232373521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbanerjeeservices.4digitmagic.com/userfiles/file/gijomilovomijanewekunes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szakkepzosiklos.hu/upload/file/mudekigagawifijilar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137f1534865c---4323894525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gptools.net/userfiles/file/pofitidemunak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicaalcantara.es/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/46622899747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nataliashishkina.com/userfiles/file/89419939277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkathirilaw.com/userfiles/files/77536115783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05pt8e98nb29b4os6qdltt2irb/rituzetebetemut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161446086e94f1---doxilulufijofipanisopota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0683df77e775ffcb93541943cba70d43/93026965434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=unprintable+pdf+to+printablePDF 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_off0000b126.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB126 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c938.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC938 14452 bytes
SHA-256: f4fffa3b6e2995de4124bfabb56e04b5958966ced5830e412e383c086a169157
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED95 10468 bytes
SHA-256: f130e487e1b5481a7931d3c797d313984bcc1518a7292c32f8c5321ffc3cf751

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