Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e0fcb95b32b5285…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 13:10:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d3a1f0bace83b64e59f1f58feea9df8f SHA-1: 38e09556111ccfb3b23aa226058e92ec9499e58a SHA-256: 8e0fcb95b32b52850b72fdf9ab0b4e1f9e34f33eee4f704e93d0d839f757905c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of these links and the overall detection suggest the document's purpose is to lure users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

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 http://harasim.cz/uploaded/files/12674656097.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h53cfrk3cl6gch8gve41rr3ktk/18839329988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mancomunidadvaldizarbe.com/userfiles/files/51254735345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grimastone.ru/files/23820251878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfa142b27c0---78497679941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075c6cd6331b---53183307625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://we-plus.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53348875310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbca0b89f3---98230955331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a84aef10779---14988406622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160921cba3af2e---35363626010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hagepoorter.be/files/files/20632667953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://susutour.com/userfile/file/24964446454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pechati-piter.ru/userfiles/file/masulewulawibuzif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42f06c8a0d415a71fa2fc9019264f1e0/95484359694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q9rasg0q9frmv64l55rvd923hu/guvagujexevuxojigobawesus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0092c70f66---80940885768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katachizu.com/img/news/files/16779647408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de4b7c436f72f0f6a15bac2e7db50487/jevobozonuduji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096051dc42a4---48266056880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/076ea43079e4768a045353cc98149e28/3649292119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd3ccf542e676c37cc1675fa86adb1a4/74672821826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/53872477339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14i1il2534ch808d2e3itfvb4o/tusesapixibigitumuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petala.gr/userfiles/file/geluruwoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salubrismd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b658c201790d85c980db0ccdbed684d/denolixiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=learning+the+law+pdfPDF 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_off0000e6e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6E0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fef7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEF7 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 606f7c82b308d96cd4828c5ad894fb806d6de82acb071bd2eb73d817ad94d8a6
font_02_sfnt_off000116a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116A6 17472 bytes
SHA-256: 60fe9140f6adc1b97db4ee912b07929260aecc42188e2bb0044df474539620ae