Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8590d0a905ee4500…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-07-24 15:29:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e6b7529502626f6dd00dc185a4719de2 SHA-1: 018a26ae6ea5a88f778716d5049d9a87c5e8c7f3 SHA-256: 8590d0a905ee45006ff4b5ab3438391234aaf825b927471be85e57a1202a97d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of multiple external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic indicate a strong intent to direct users to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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 http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16320062438.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb768b6c4f58e4aa027ab1f554a30861/koluxokuxoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084088667915---59492427165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidequipment.com/public_html/userfiles/file/15758285586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertoniamministrazione.it/bertoni/public/file/tidefuwefovax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a366c6ae103---barajodurukagafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0rgcp00dqnsi4ijrcfoeqggghh/3369166443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campbellelectronics.com/uploads/21431989598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa3f8d85e16---gelorilujovazaginorizovib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5e9dd9e1e7---8045301834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f841d384951076b1a2bdd1cfb0dea4f3/19714748656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2fa41c40d9---91898029322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a87e7bdc26d---72898266646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0911bd23ae---mogigisaleruwapesoxowar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5elc5hutfkkk633cgl3hp0dd53/muzorinagebamikuxepinuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/muspot2rda29bbifvm8u6nnppl/33981283269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df9cf5cabf80a2a308b451dfb2ddd50b/53178131458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamlaproject.com/userData/board/file/25456376070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skupka54.ru/upload/m/monololezozozip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharajohnscreek.com/sites/default/files/file/keteferabalaxevagejuvofat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b750d66e88---xivorokipenanesosipigabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf0c8e86feb---wetugufonetixopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atraba-holding.com/userfiles/file/jitupewutumide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harasportcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07pfpbuk4qra0af8mais9bbms5/29488364521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b98076f1ce2---17969934033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c93e2a0c5a---38523209093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=tontos+de+capirote+francisco+robles+pdf+gratisPDF 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_off0000e508.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE508 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD1A 17840 bytes
SHA-256: 6226f47920b85c1ff14b47dc008f017812e0d0ff8a32e6902b89dd990abdb681
font_02_sfnt_off00012a0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A0E 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 13a67682dc8555777bef2ae22b7ac3cb726f1d858567f745590cd75efd92cb66