Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 708e8ab68b986ed8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 18:25:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 041968f64163dfa93b584e280fb2e39d SHA-1: 3e2b068b1f562f4eaea9466c2cf9e75dc8c1cd0e SHA-256: 708e8ab68b986ed804fe236ded4761669ceafe79901d8cb663b150ab46e9e41a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a deliberate attempt to obscure the true destination or leverage compromised infrastructure. The document body was unreadable, but the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://kueapem.com/contents//files/21657081839.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://orderkai.com/uploads/files/notewajibinaweveputezeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.casasemio.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9131282923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpsoft.shop/upload/files/nupifevogegogowujuxomemun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://club-sports.net/uploads/products/files/bupal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160743697efde8---84846791147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transfertrolley.cn/d/files/wuvewizupijoripuvejiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c124fff9984cdf52d6971f67cadb570/xapazejewoxumigunodizene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theeultimatenetworker.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zudozobitejimuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f103c75b70350c44a1e9782f93bbf780/liwafujonesofije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5f207a1bd2---54592032064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szakkepzosiklos.hu/upload/file/25912664017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83391e564872c28722292d35b443d537/vipaleranamafibolege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-margherita.biz/userfiles/files/9450889584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccf255e11d9---nixexoxuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halaljones.com/uploads/files/jujokesefide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4b123abd85b02bc47557e7393146237/kejumaxabenaliga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f6a25ae487---44548082194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed941be70e9---38983557612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muzeumkonstancina.pl/attachments/file/96664152187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/44584330572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.area-tlc.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79952027717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domki-kopalino.pl/pliki/94280375889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e24005829e85bcc53b1bc344e3c73ade/xusitis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=herbert+marcuse+eros+y+civilizacion+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_off0000c324.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC324 11252 bytes
SHA-256: 3545686af25acbd8dbdd9e1574c0dbf19ece6ea7375e6f39673d0cb59745e14b
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD5A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f56c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF56C 17440 bytes
SHA-256: 2da2bea3ef354f905c6e3bbf5df2febe501dcb9b3cdb0fc881eb0bcaeb8fcb9c