Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8762097cd3399d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-09-26 11:04:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 34ae3315d21b06aa4ee00ba657458932 SHA-1: a3995fdcb11055f23d29ee25b960887104e094bc SHA-256: e8762097cd3399d573d0789f8b0b32fcafe22ede0861e65fe3df29b8c4c0fe0e
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to deliver a secondary payload or phishing content. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristic firings point to a URL-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://kyanite.tv/userfiles/file/gonamujalokezukijiver.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sistarelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/suzugadifizidonokisajux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiquital.com/documentos/file/sazenuxujofafes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stalbeckers.nl/userfiles/image/file/78600407395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e03b03dca4f6cd20889f1bb2e3b9241/32120659288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149a3ae94d2c---nevezaxezedexuxonikajivar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxplus.in/images/contentimages/files/sebirij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147b84fd7f89---53542826915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614a2ae762bda---14028182865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancephoto.ru/userfiles/files/54191411476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariopisillibertozzi.eu/userfiles/files/figukopajilutivorotosuxel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vasutaszeneiskola.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tojitofugamonalogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demo.wsbe17hongkong.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zavuwajakerilop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeuu.biz/upload/ckeditor/pages/files/22646536716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fermobkorea.com/userfiles/file/20210910102658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoy.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/tuzarekulapifisakelisavuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gpaci.org.br/cms/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fipaxawakajovagivuwirajed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazhonghua1688.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39502776565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alpinebadmintonacademy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xokipalekamawenufapexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90ed87bee0f7239632aba0904af9d16d/folorasefamaxojakafimuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blfimmobiliare.com/userfiles/files/52378960785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motecx.com/images/file/wefumemopepoboxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veiligheidssloten.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nitopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.org/userfiles/file/ziwuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=hidden+call+recorder+app+2020PDF 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_off0000b731.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB731 18336 bytes
SHA-256: 29e758780040f066eb6713edd0e067cec9070525a1f2ea6cc46842a0119bd387
font_01_sfnt_off0000e577.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE577 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 4587ad5e423de2a1dc2c7f9a4846db9acc4883e11b0e581f06604eb11e0c731e
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD3D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1