Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e8a438fd541f4f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 13:02:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 95e9e44851edb58c2f8c1e6d9afd8e31 SHA-1: aa4bf03b9bbc538cc5d19044c9c5f46a55cf754d SHA-256: 0e8a438fd541f4f13642ee0d7ebbe3892afbd8ec5f1a66906939959bd9bf5529
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to external URLs, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wireless+networks+notes+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce6747824b71c20e0c768fd4504588e7/83580208101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609871c078692---14894284928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0437fb3afdb12bb6a6268e0ab9714f3e/24232896189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609468a145645---mobuxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopadive.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pokelezevorawad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirakuramenandsushi.com/uploads/files/kajefaxunujurejeledil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc928896905---88533276864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71c89029856ab80d85889f891cdcab6a/50512871394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1025481d575df935091e04bcb61b65aa/fazisatutag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0462bd8bd---32869375077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mashtalkandil.com/userfiles/file/jebejetisogovaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://b-solutions.net/userfiles/file/21089786239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/msjp5o0e6saqqgiu5mfd6td7d5/7232814004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vrto059i5qm5cus6cs0b50oam1/soroliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdbc8d62bcd1373d280236802a816eea/turifidujativo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c921446ac1---49123800227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080bb4400ec2---43915423037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flexrocksrollovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lbmvvtp60jo7osn8pbbvq2m5qp/10054921866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be2753e11b0---mobemetowafewumazesirapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074409cec5fc---19700666510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8498c28a5a22138dbc64b0ad867b6014/gobovotanadem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160739db1838c0---51901858100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villabrown.it/userfiles/files/pomaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5f4e10a7c8---dagesudegaferepanudojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00010019.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10019 16444 bytes
SHA-256: 0c181b9eeb30781f47065dcf9db2835c3e91891939c9fe789fe369a835789a2c
font_01_sfnt_off00012abe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ABE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000142d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142D5 10500 bytes
SHA-256: bafaa3a7a06229c03557dfbd1498560346381cdc187d0320cd84cac984cca2ab