Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8aa8696851c8685…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-25 02:46:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: e8f849fe5edfb473807ff4d865ee0e65 SHA-1: 513577ace218ec9fed582a19afa1b274cebd3fee SHA-256: e8aa8696851c8685c9cac47d5c7deb3a80442e6ae04d3bbf1c82ac38c252a838
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains multiple links pointing to external resources, many of which are hosted on compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of a ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and ML classifier flagging further supports a malicious intent, likely to facilitate the download of unwanted software.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://rentcar888.com/uploads/files/202109241658109286.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stowarzyszeniemalyksiaze.eu/img/upload/files/50827188545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theatresaucinema.fr/uploads/file/lixususuretijumizorivilik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamma-electronics-eg.com/userfiles/files/79400155625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614af1226b0e0---budibomunagumijuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ddeaf3fe4e---97912801107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indobaliart.com/sitefiles/file/49999879856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goacetours.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52176421691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chi-kara.net/Upload/files/dipajimavojel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopedrazzini.eu/userfiles/files/10579236247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turksebruiloften.nl/userfiles/file/zesobukaliwomoseserudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karinameal.ru/imgdish/files/40103895912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd2e4719fc8d10f6579fb37d84506932/42140183285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartraoptics.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/43132040066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamolenasnc.it/userfiles/files/fubigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lebefejuzeximos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaudi.tw/upload/file/96097371182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precisao.net/files/files/76298461527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e7929b8359acb1723e7edfc0eecbebf/95985108360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamap.in/ci/userfiles/files/26836059465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technology-mp.it/userfiles/files/69441756717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulleungroadtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210912_A3790CA83A57F82B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnyuanzong.com/uploads/files/20210918010317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138870de247e---tigek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=clipclaps+apk+for+pcPDF 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_off0000b409.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB409 10260 bytes
SHA-256: 276b4d71d30ca119ac5a970eb850cf219b374254c70780e1e74b76d2a07bdfbd
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB39 18116 bytes
SHA-256: 3b8ce11ba6e5d1338cdc00893f9a8e8397749560a1710e975edf49624719deeb
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1