Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e8af0eba4d35cb1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-06-19 23:29:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a0b11e8cbe8aba8cfee048a278c30c4f SHA-1: efea27a9940f27c045fc02f84f5ee13e662a8ad5 SHA-256: 2e8af0eba4d35cb11b0ed34d11949e78736ab54e724c80d4ede01634850d4769
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. Static analysis revealed a link farm structure, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains, indicating an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, but no clear textual lure is discernible.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 http://zoltysnieg.pl/pliki_wyswig/files/wepemuxoworetana.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://africa-emergence2019.com/userfiles/file/povufarimezixegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paroissedementon.fr/upload/files/60729964755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d84c41c09---59035250434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83af72e4043f6f83e92b7da4bc6d814d/lojuvidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f7d297745---72453414458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beachhigh65.com/clients/879402/File/kodepakejadibus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1368ea0f05---27854291898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160911caa41f95---95114150146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americansummercamps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608425b06df30---63062425464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smn68.com/clients/75339/File/46699407186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1400710fca6b29090d6c0436b465b0b/dinujudalobur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160831979dd8c9---23940321857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nqaggqgde705gjbteh44ak9tv3/19758914704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f1eef1650e---22565208608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=leveling+weapons+poePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e8fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8FB 4984 bytes
SHA-256: b126e72d33db358ca346cea0d8c9bd7d947ea113f5fce6389dd5fa08a5c2f138
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA20 10692 bytes
SHA-256: a2ac77b20072f588425a60b7c175c8c8a4dcec4642d04638f2a2cc9d780d5292