Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e8bf53762d3aad4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 17:47:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a35c9540a1d444a35eaa83a2fba8e832 SHA-1: 2cf2e4e4b47b3aa12170c18fef2756192f6c5df4 SHA-256: 1e8bf53762d3aad42158c5825eda2e0e7f77b8c4135b717ae2b7ae7017de4c28
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF containing numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm. Heuristics and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to external, potentially malicious, websites.

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+answer+why+us PDF link annotation
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mcso33lubbb82lm2lrq72n21i3/silaxusovutoxumuterij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxeina.com/userfiles/files/tofuvabuzugazaked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://93564497.com/userfiles/93027982942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b728b97e44---96618511016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ecb98e3e94---66828972880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5d0d16a010ca43d8f2ee381067fd6d5/24964120124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ced227cf5---jexalofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purofirstli.net/userfiles/file/vararufuniruvopapeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytovietnam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/borugobetizemudijol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.knickmeier.net/images/pageimg/file/gaxuliduvivububajafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e0e5dd54f9---54900863683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenenergy.com/sites/default/files/file/nijedunilusuvatufoxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ojba9a6givsb351v0f803oit4/25943605746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a23165ea7a8---vuxepuxixutedawafozufubim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8f4871ec49---sulesowazupifip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607417cec1364---52807359078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a406c01b110d2b0cd9767bf7bbbb8e7/17597715296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7096f73832ba055967f25fe981b35f44/xifomekafurisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c97617875de---jivubufisibotajidiganejiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zge-led.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/56010233999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ritadas.in/userfiles/file/23273740145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9cdb8ca13e---7700346303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/auka5251v69rjqf4lvfhoorr01/sunaxunedapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitalenzyme.com/uploads/fckupload/file/44210123525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/16073c7910148a---41851890342.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_off0000f903.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF903 16864 bytes
SHA-256: d81508e7bb697062617a21cd68cbeff0d7fe27dc86c44668b4a0723f28381b81
font_01_sfnt_off0001251a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1251A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013d31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D31 10360 bytes
SHA-256: d3e569947febc96b109c8023c60b61f70c98b749dc405b592c2c171308828867