Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8872246b3944bf9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-09-22 19:57:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c4419ecc4a759963ed07ca10684fc7c1 SHA-1: 67b73e6e0fb0bd5e68679e45d107c3e7fa517b49 SHA-256: e8872246b3944bf96249e510f5b54a266bf503a66ff7bcce6ea9b9646255696f
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple URLs pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, indicative of a phishing or SEO poisoning campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document's structure as a link farm, combined with the embedded script, suggests it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://saopauloairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64355312587.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/84704630742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtrak.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fefabomirekosiraxafupefuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursakaynak.com/userfiles/file/deropozumutijoxoxedonal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kssi.ir/public/userfiles/file/2880984564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apaman.ti-am.jp/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2095100496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelci.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fexarazubisija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0qvcgt4epv1b30akjj97i7vtut/77093108334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161343850c13f3---35227457796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kujainspectors.com/candyticket/uploads/page_images/files/gorolupikaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dvarenda.ru/upload/file/6411039889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ominocoibaffi.it/userfiles/files/73363452464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161339cb9ed177---63967162300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italy-ex.com/images/blog/file/30855723075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chptravel.ir/data/file/90288045980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuovartea.eu/userfiles/files/55731308213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitours.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21900651238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robotsuk.com/luckingbros.co.uk/userfiles/files/46596975510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranchobg.com/img/file/ribosobuxukurijodikudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alumcity.ru/userfiles/file/tuwubewiwise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cansuyu.org/resimler/files/90736045552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riviera.az/userfiles/file/duvop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ski-valloire.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93486065534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161497ffab29f4---22663783052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=need+for+speed+most+wanted+2005+pc+download+windows+7PDF 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_off0000b301.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB301 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB13 14668 bytes
SHA-256: 0c8721579d2160b82454ff0a396de0e99062777aac6dd2e4bf720526e2015d37
font_02_sfnt_off0000efb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFB5 11272 bytes
SHA-256: 2c13266707e2674bd01e2c2541e7f443e699687ce01e23c85905e872e541a54a