Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e09bb7414009c1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-09-26 13:06:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: bd112501aca30303f7c9b89623d664c4 SHA-1: 55be5abeb8b2981496129d5f0f945cf1b0841737 SHA-256: 8e09bb7414009c1f22cfc5f989d2523b97ce16ef413742a803a5dd31648e5f2e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=online+pdf+to+powerpoint+convertor PDF link annotation
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f3a2eec927---xowexanexivawomek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://repairbase.net/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/images/file/57727165696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccadl.com/files/20210913001855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sprostredkovanieuverov.sk/res/file/23615928781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79f1884bb0ad2fcfab1d647e624d4874/61883608486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psychophonie-tarbes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuvuraxakonegorujufofuxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rossbeede.com/userfiles/file/reladagomod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iseveranscopy.com/upload/editor/file/3416860409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shortguycentral.com/ck_uploads/files/13722582618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzperson.com/uploadfile/files/98915820495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137b6590148a---75375075692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miet-boot.ch/images/uploadedimages/file/46799542852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161409316ceb5d---86093778709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esangsok.com/upfile/files/60976663362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thaodienland.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/temp/file/bezipoxepubavuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regaluxiluminacion.com/uploads/assets/file/kuboxezenafafuxuteza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hhoasis.org/app/webroot/img/fck/file/zomalavijepini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://floral-design-lindgens.de/userfiles/file/sivukejimiwivub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamo-tato.ro/userfiles/file/zekixezulud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resttour.com/images/userfiles/files/64516173815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://touristclub.in/userfiles/file/85300793955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jyapa.com/jhuoyue/uploadfiles/vanitezewidalulogofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tiande-global.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2674480147.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_off0000c165.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC165 10460 bytes
SHA-256: 29009b31cc08e2ecdec6900df9093324358fb020e52678eda05759db67c2523a
font_01_sfnt_off0000d949.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD949 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f15b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF15B 19264 bytes
SHA-256: 1c319a9232aee9503b1b15aa1e7ad85498da3b744aba3ade9aa33e035d28f29d