Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e0b82b526cef91b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 11:52:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: ebd3aa6cd8c32f4317fefeb83f027e90 SHA-1: 7f8e9f735f06b0f93a04375e6cf76cedd0360c36 SHA-256: 8e0b82b526cef91b78416f57d641c714e3541de731b3a9decb6e855a43222991
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further 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 0.9949

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://liyangah.com/Upload/file/zamikorisawaxapiwofubux.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://parklanehotel.asia/userfiles/file/momikuredajatigopogivogag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a49d1288ebb---47458864026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magerp.org/upload/files/pebegifajevusazuxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/fomedalamisawibifasiboji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/30166422991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c2b9e412a4---20080389578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c0e527a0a0---fepilifidubiwomirigum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6054b99d5e69ea245b70d482249ed6b/bewonojuzizanagifones.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghhs1968.com/clients/5/57/5762190d0a265df614d1f295a7060a42/File/43636840924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copy-office.it/userfiles/file/bideforenujanigux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/215a0869f567bcb23ca9dd26d8cf6106/zesotafefojufasejawijamol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efcuho1mls4q222ca5h3lun7v9/wemifosikonurefakobalasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/669787eb842f4b41d28354b2759922f3/29303269090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bolshunoff.ru/images/wysiwyg/file/34108945360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f97fc6092980b1e2d74a5e0ae577af5/juwisixegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/65611462423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solartgaleria.hu/images/file/95711954443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.com/uploads/file/57227005751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610f307da34e9---13538376660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursakaynak.com/userfiles/file/13745946235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vds-construct.pl/userfiles/file/44354836387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r2abd7597j6bp8544a6v4ce8b7/49477182417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/nemaxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16125d3fc74b63---79135899813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=10+commandments+of+firearm+safetyPDF 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_off0000db05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB05 16648 bytes
SHA-256: 6e9a922b7609c46af95e74aedfbbcee5b562c3242a000853beabc0d5d81657ba
font_01_sfnt_off000105f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105F9 10780 bytes
SHA-256: cac6b1c9f75b3eb6e024a4b83ca30f5f2d1b50257d33b382f589ad258d9483d1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ed8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ED8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1