Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e8338aba963d495…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-06-26 15:51:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 726bfaa0c3a481abeea85fe22d53273d SHA-1: bcf19d23a9fcf90c17da5d72441cc43844b6039d SHA-256: 1e8338aba963d49516202422fec632de356133dfb0c5546b8ec3f6f51c8d0570
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farms, combined with the ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', strongly suggests a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56094dbf53c697e9200345ca9a601ff8/56633085152.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://inarchengineering.it/userfiles/files/mutonuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliothequedesarts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ripunedurikugomurapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc4048362f3---72327146123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4cd32d6eeaeef5ebe52b1c767c4b002/80386528291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098799b01b87---57388367786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawina-radom.pl/files/file/64998693534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c6t90qk354dp1ntj2rnll74sd/57808273580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burgas-remonti.com/userfiles/file/45509600693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/69856373239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kvqu5t4bcj383mk04bkdmbn6nr/60747502168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081cf58e887c---80472202090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078fc2109215---81580962237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afayl.com/userfiles/file/zomejabalamop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/19758909922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/nepelopukikisujanurumus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00jt0hc3pbmi2su7ls1c1g7ar4/37899803170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc79e0cccb---sobojafazaxirefapunuxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e18b0291531e854c4e9a6c09e9b660c/652611241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607990eb300c5---kebod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jevades.com/aircraft/fckimages/file/povepiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8ccf3b0f5a---xapabulejifegemigironavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=download+age+of+empires+2+definitive+edition+indonesiaPDF 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_off0000e8fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8FD 11116 bytes
SHA-256: 24d2c0ad838cfca0747a4d5130bd38183562a9e56a845d56dbc2d43426990c87
font_01_sfnt_off000102ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102CE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ae0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AE0 17612 bytes
SHA-256: 2d112e242e9cf8a2a89f3edb8dad9fb1535620eb0d809e0b428b072fd566645c