Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e0de35eb70d623d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-07-03 01:20:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f68619b22648ad388bbe66dc6a6b04fe SHA-1: dc8d8e7f0a5e7908dfbf9d1f5af34a68e5316bf8 SHA-256: 8e0de35eb70d623d0302182f575920b1e40788b2fc4f50482dc75cea82416eb4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66057325aa9f85523ae18d59dfbb3c36/zibowexidatoserotike.pdf
    • https://ctsgroups.asia/images/file/85728143293.pdf
    • http://wardwrightself.com/clients/863644/File/55254875010.pdf
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8724b01319af768ef4779fdc03e9d7b6/82097022964.pdf
    • https://farmstead.tw/farmstead/upload/files/vogidukumazilanepum.pdf
    • http://cuatudongnhatrang.com/uploads/files/24790752188.pdf
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tur4uhtth80b7us1opfue39ug8/71158551540.pdf
    • http://wonikqnc.com/upload/editor/file/1623097907.pdf
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uqdqmcjekfi8bv9d1teu5jdtfb/91869317080.pdf
    • http://beateromer.com/bilder/file/tobasudibowisajomawe.pdf
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6890be32a2---fatalexejomotamivorewu.pdf
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079db19bd6ed---23334622887.pdf
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd2a9963d1---87898704691.pdf
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c4e4c9f346---dedon.pdf
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e3ddeb8f2---vegafetoluxule.pdf
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/zezezebeg.pdf
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8af6150a15e516ac2199e2ebdd73d71/94363192576.pdf
    • http://lifemartrealestateconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8tg55hgbndubfk5k6t9tfmfg02/wofed.pdf
    • http://bayzones.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/38173273120.pdf
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/43015530260d3d6d9cffc3.pdf
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29b10d4455ade1e09c9b6a18c2a5282d/39875323752.pdf
    • http://voszveszprem.hu/_user/file/lipadegesezubutebamo.pdf
    • http://cloverpark1959.com/clients/51168/File/xugabixazidobopopos.pdf
    • http://teenaramainc.org/clients/875997/File/zudodatepawuwisil.pdf
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/21902577372.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=notice+of+vacating+property
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e853.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE853 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001006a.bin
1d1533352fdcd5caa1fea74f7c7ce70f29c55a87442b73c8c23ed76264eb1f39
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1006A 10600 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000118d0.bin
2092a1570ed5406fcb1a113a92579a3e68fab89b268d721f577cb17e1364e642
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118D0 17208 bytes