Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e0d9bef150b4e6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-07-27 18:50:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8557055d57da23911bef5c20df82a2d7 SHA-1: a957c779acbb86ff13897e8735751e0b6178a265 SHA-256: 8e0d9bef150b4e6ffa42e1c150ab8428049eb805f380e0160ad120bf773bb588
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with multiple URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous external links and the PDF structure itself are indicative of a malicious document designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://drlanda.hu/user/file/pegunidi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lutechmed.com/Images_upload/files/57786395950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zakuskymoser.cz/www/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79072524419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe19f74db8928f787b17edd3113c26c9/30990139656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/16725979231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifecare4all.com/upload/files/murisikuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c87f138e80f---24241544162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepinieramontana.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xerituserunuxogon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99856b21601d5838de12158129e4d219/28260687189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagodkaprzedszkole.pl/userfiles/file/76129686371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098d1d16afd8---labogudipevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6b3db316f---5387798178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/nesupezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/79332207713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wawa757.com/uploads/files/34291137820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuhs1981.com/clients/8/82/82ca37c076ec4232796cb58ed009bb3a/File/51574053465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fb58e59f4cd0106b8825d48e883c5ac/tenuzezuvopagitafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9be4afff2f9d9fedcc1cd336af0ae8b/8329738779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maisonforville.be/documents/file/28420442152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/basapinuwomifoxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0978017b2e---42807246469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kemenyseprosiklos.hu/upload/file/7424654213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samsung-service-center.ru/uploads/files/vabedubak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/gijuvoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=destilando+amor+cap%C3%ADtulos+completos+145PDF 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_off0000c3fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3FD 11100 bytes
SHA-256: 60a713622ee22c2de59ec271f820a00a5399a569e1f6097d8abdb2dfdd417f8f
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDEC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f5fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5FE 16400 bytes
SHA-256: de9b88b0a50877f849cdcfc2caf62a3710db55d29c25bc02111d3cc9c91833bb