Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8d354f5f8d040d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-09-19 20:38:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 5e60b7f76b23fa9504d41103966cd965 SHA-1: 7b4c711590f442349fd52d0aeac866d180fa1aac SHA-256: e8d354f5f8d040d5ea7cf5a27cb5a636b286bf6d880a8cd24f98da4a102193cf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, but the URL structure suggests a downloader or redirector.

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.radanhorse.com/resource/files/54831541192.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dkkarsin.pl/img/upload/files/9035815647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97913029404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatrangpalace.vn/app/webroot/upload/files/rujasenozaxudakikofix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rugsdirect4u.com/uploadedfiles/file/50255527494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d4b1ea22cf---lapajejojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://champaigncursillo.com/userfiles/file/96598741871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyoujin.com/UploadFile/file/20210905053652863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wendi101.com/userfiles/file/mawanuxiwetexur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abakus-routing.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73914082350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakura-bashi.com/uploads/files/202109172118314473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davaocarrental.com/images/file/31782537209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a89ad0ccf19bffd320de3089c56b128/23358994224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birzebbugastpetersfc.com/files/file/7155187171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meruzhankhachatryan.com/app/webroot/files/file/vonabari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8faf1b99aeee806106c7a680ecb96741/16656834726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inkjetartandimage.com/Uploads/file/73063940503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathugo.de/res/wysiwyg/file/9079120247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinzimoniofiumicino.eu/userfiles/files/nibefojeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonlaval.com/userfiles/files/kugedak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmfjhjk.friend-match.com/upload/files/12664513948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itps-group.com/uploadfiles/file/bivivulamevin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businesslife.com/content/files/pupuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+print+pdf+file+which+is+print+protectedPDF 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_off0000d206.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD206 10632 bytes
SHA-256: c8b507be599a5807672d117d716acd27fa07fcaa732106e6c6788c159ad62256
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA47 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010259.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10259 17056 bytes
SHA-256: 58604de73ff867d9690478fc6668d655d5b9697101216d000b08c523d1fe9338