Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e0707d35fda51a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-06-28 23:57:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: bcea2a69eabfd3fe484d6c52843db5c1 SHA-1: 497e83ac65ad5ad8eb9d62efec5fc9245fc3876c SHA-256: 8e0707d35fda51a4a5e5ae00bafb362cd6b689e52820b10fffa241e3bbea238c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of an attempt to exploit users by directing them to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eeg6t0vh7p6aqldtrl0opuf6dj/6794367312.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://watertorens.nl/userfiles/file/39436351913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nadiadsa.org/userfiles/file/3323411720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097fa56d5ffb---fugovukavuvowifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.erenang.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082466ec4fa7---xozexug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0b50624363003e8cd823eda629b98d9/jaragubexoguku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pressvaluation.net/userfiles/file/busalezumukitirovirimixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hirurgija.me//files/19751842961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608faab8c58f0---85805500359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemculture.com/userfiles/file/77571306608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/885222882f5e675ef45ed878c13030b0/24240120736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608305279fd99---zobarojovonize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yishiweb.com/upfiles/files/20210529_103653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceresasrl.it/userfiles/files/88453931715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kitapkapla.com/upload/ckfinder/files/lavojojutomofipexivaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bandungmesin.com/file/firafimuzoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9346d7ae94---20894306113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05db9b7b80fc5a466a53991f587f29db/45570053737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97gi6aj3oe2ucb9ofruk4rdm23/mefiluvanasaxotoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdb359a1fc9deca146257a4b1fe3edfb/20949402848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160828a74eb03c---sejidumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d245ddae0b969748f969e06c6ce89251/japuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mlravqb3h0i5cc5v4am4v75sii/retadojowelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748f590dbdc---54373709179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2decf0653862b6a9419af11266049030/bapurawizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62lnno2nussdb0hjb8io250kug/86388304657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160771d7376abc---kuloxanogatakajuputeruju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=cargo+express+trackingPDF 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_off0000cf38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF38 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 9f486a9a983c485adb725a6ddb244b93abb0740bde3fb5056574ab32f3d16f24
font_01_sfnt_off0000e812.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE812 19596 bytes
SHA-256: d994686d2331afe67fc46d272452853445045ccffb7baeac874f53a541912002
font_02_sfnt_off000119b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1