Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e8489765a050a97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 21:06:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0ec0f80a08ae4c7fa0ef0ba69efa5a2d SHA-1: c809b809c1043b355ede356a456c7a4108307d96 SHA-256: 1e8489765a050a977209dcc71e32cbb9a1ff9a1ba375c92c8b19f9d837c77385
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous disposable hosting sites, likely intended to host further malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of a visual download button further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://theclubburger.com/uploads/files/vivodaloxubar.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f90964d953383c8e276bef62726d819e/fuxusixiwemuwebufim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d965d3ec011ec78f8236a602f484285e/zozojufukapereje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8290f4f3a5850cccb502659b1c213817/jevusiwuzip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somsit.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jafutulomerifodufose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/98786358230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4b07244ae---nomedowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9a69faa132---xafimadit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clair-environnement.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/nilunotutej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goreskyreunion.com/clients/b/ba/ba087d28c24afe6c5bc45fa062332e47/File/9832722031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4apbuhk1vosb9td6vfbtcl14f1/44779268793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6gnem6ioud0fu6avn0s3iqpour/wozupopeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebuzz.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38840153979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/24555068650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icon-studios.com/userfiles/file/15633480629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9392c36bd4eec963a1507817346073c6/8263546787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078241ca1284---71989658971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/gebuxenulij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariabilancino.it/userfiles/files/72872803178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://multimetrics.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gereluduvit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteyourstaff.com/calisma2/files/uploads/xajuvuwonilogazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://classconnbio.com/img-jacson/files/vepativafigarid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff84d50bd0d8af0f05bee9133e604f21/93186654725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=isro+quiz+questions+pdfPDF 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_off0000e251.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE251 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA68 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 87af4d9a63455d161eeccf462af4474cfe601136a532009b715cb3f13647ee76
font_02_sfnt_off00011259.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11259 17300 bytes
SHA-256: b08a89178eda7d9441d587107d326ffff2b44ea2952a6112ace04d49d844ddf5