Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8892e5737994547f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.0 KB Created: 2021-07-06 19:19:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: e8d066ea9fb6891ede4b2a85a4c9a5a8 SHA-1: a81d8ba5b7ad282237eb2d949979fe7d4df63d3d SHA-256: 8892e5737994547fa942ae51e207129744a037a8e5d977c96b872ca8f91196f2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous URLs and the 'link farm' heuristic point to an attack pattern focused on redirecting users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=amobarbital+side+effects PDF link annotation
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803e0649944---65797569337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/990fbc81f2854f5f1023a39fceffceda/98872794929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r3mgl37m7fjlmtridvubhn2uub/topiroletokofixiwixadeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnibat.net/uploads/archivos/guwedopetumif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bu40jgmm052s83454l1dia6vjn/38237669244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khodahoanglang.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/dopogixul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7299c4f0dca36fb06a8399ab9f6a228/pujuzudekobido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4d25870043---4325385075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auldskoolrocks.com/clients/878384/File/27872790789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aae602e295f---xurepofubawiparewadew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapmanhighschoolclassof1968.com/clients/c/cb/cb1fed5110c07f199f416a264ee6943c/File/78727628108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1099b165fa---leruxevavut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/77531310342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.latentoac.com/portal/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a7cvadboi8li56d2v9l2jmdvu/bojafowoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f32e3bc5d2---jutinidan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccarbotosani.ro/userfiles/file/leronuwazolipeladavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fb6a7e19051447cb7876f95cfbb02f5/52173096282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerezolorente.com/files/cerezolorente/_repo/file/fexabibasotalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b75f6d700b1---worepasobifipogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annandale1963.com/clients/69704/File/72869791604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/86066295562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084c97f881d1---neduludenudeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vhjo4vbb9ftqk6fr4a6u1cfal5/xuliwenojilemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a76b30ecea92d9bc61ccd34bc373a0c/sededa.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_off00010a14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A14 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 074fc02621af05e6d2b18a39e456bb0f4d65e12e59a466e0c369235cbd915074
font_01_sfnt_off00012286.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12286 16924 bytes
SHA-256: fd0214075c12526a0d15d897be6ac6cd4deb105cc1f3e830e07c006bd0ba6a54
font_02_sfnt_off00014ecb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14ECB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1