Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e0db9656bf7c599…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-08-11 02:28:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e3f3fb993a0116bd23a7fe9a4f7f1cae SHA-1: 894145acaa9aad2c2d09ab30e9fb68cd16255b03 SHA-256: 8e0db9656bf7c5998d48dd9510e39b8e46b4b4014594fefcb111a8496bb6109a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, likely to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of many external links and the high risk score indicate a malicious intent to lure users to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://arch-teh.com/pic/userfile/16170186387.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3rlovdol0n4vbd6ern3sv9m4h6/narebepufaveleporubug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestocktool.com/d/files/27395245751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhsclassof63.com/clients/c/c8/c8cc7cee7579ddcd469b669c0eb172d8/File/99216718553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63c13b736cac2f8c62573fbb42afd22d/87411579033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ui28oajetqsaae89092e5cqit/17976644391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f99b5b2ed2678bbbc1986b6150cfc025/gativetewatilunuzug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7f6ebb5592---31060663355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105200554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambalatender.com/upload/files/70129646625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asap-recruitment.net/upload/file/34234660734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adom.biz.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30021195271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/83354162711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46ac6bb8ac4f51b073147be50c36347a/kebawivejekatuzewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamnonlittlesun.com/upload/files/sizivupomodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088ccb76fa74---tekoziteresow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gezond-trakteren.nl/kasteel-doornenburg-img/bestandenfile/dukedazotaxotid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/46785869378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicornproduction.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7524e03e46150ff87f090ce49ce74a2/jazesofeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bee72050f33---97923207812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a499eb52e82c91916b2d8b5704413b1/forivibekigesewusetevip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://budapestpainter.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97128753625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=can+you+play+halo+2+on+xbox+360PDF 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_off0000f4d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4D1 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 0e8b5881c60b4263dfbe139097275e11f502e4a9920ca982f3acab848011f2ec
font_01_sfnt_off00010d8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D8D 16932 bytes
SHA-256: 58356875734718d6b380752df9f03dd2fbe6c0c063503961c29b44d427e75fad
font_02_sfnt_off000139a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139A6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1