Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8d4ed272302d540…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-09-24 14:43:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c8a7cec346fa0a6b1b36ddeaf4b755e6 SHA-1: 8d97122a21e4d8d07e76e8dd2bda1f756eff3b90 SHA-256: e8d4ed272302d540965e7a903bb6445d47b50b05dda78c27e890359bb074c0e4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or to serve further malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://szentistvanpatika.hu/upload/file/31623582496.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148b50c2fa1a---81494590323.pdf
    • http://signexpowholesale.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/50198375660.pdf
    • http://qiangka.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/laxenowu.pdf
    • http://drukarnia-skawina.pl/app/webroot/media/files/worinomuwevila.pdf
    • http://lycee-elm.info/userfiles/file/zimoxexovako.pdf
    • http://purplebyanki-com.bvirani.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wiredonuwas.pdf
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dtrmva9qiqgmgr74428o5t712/komosasokoderuj.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135db59f2dae---94438045699.pdf
    • http://dxczx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210906_054146.pdf
    • http://makairways.in/home/makairways2017/public_html/dowalumniusa/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77118539711.pdf
    • https://jazykovytabor.topenglish.sk/app/webroot/gallery/files/96216652962.pdf
    • https://inprovitmexico.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64545529550.pdf
    • https://vsetinrally.cz/userfiles/file/difuwozateli.pdf
    • http://wahluenfty.com/userfiles/29849809154.pdf
    • https://www.gurkhasfinance.com.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zojuguduzisofutaf.pdf
    • http://df-2.de/images/daten/file/51856896507.pdf
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131ae3162abe---971538339.pdf
    • http://mebco.ru/images/file/vevog.pdf
    • http://bananamusic.tw/uploads/files/202109190618143894.pdf
    • https://butzbacher.turnpoint.jo/app/webroot/upload/files/fezigogaterojivoju.pdf
    • http://ceramicaartisticamarsalese.it/userfiles/files/bepaximosogemij.pdf
    • https://evabizz.com/userfiles/file/devenadujogofipobewavopu.pdf
    • http://pickup-ws.com/userfiles/files/15140904333.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=space+symbols+copy+and+paste
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b029.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB029 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c83b.bin
a4e3ec73ada872cb11bf28349dcbcd1ba95d14eeac5ae808ebf23b1b14c26150
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC83B 15844 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f074.bin
ea227491a10ce66a5052c34f29d82bd7bdbff2796274ab22a43b344bed241372
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF074 10812 bytes