Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e1aad68c3eafeb1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-07-04 20:38:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 801b7ed9661644a0cf7e5bbf5e2f1b79 SHA-1: 33fd94855f47fe0e915fb68c2f4258f87f7722bb SHA-256: 8e1aad68c3eafeb1290f06e03ff1e8d2e0802ef365e7e571e7d2a6b3e8958a43
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to contain junk data, indicating an attempt to hide its true purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=anorectal+fistula+causes
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b729c0c4a5b---4698919871.pdf
    • http://train-in-japan.com/images/blog//file/94405860244.pdf
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d1948e565bc09e21669f17afce21720/18048257989.pdf
    • http://bezpiecznamlodosc.org/files/file/68585305847.pdf
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099393b3404d---5824404371.pdf
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160907d0949bc3---pizojinu.pdf
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074181f46ccf---65650245751.pdf
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160730377690ba---kokaxejatofelad.pdf
    • http://teenaramainc.org/clients/875997/File/58876272596.pdf
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089f82e3e2f8---gozetomolowifi.pdf
    • http://flooroverstock.com/admin/userfiles/file/movebevojilabozuliruriv.pdf
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b3afc23111e2ae81d0bdb256d326886/96462342636.pdf
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/72591966352.pdf
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a88a49fd984ecf10bdd52e802244517/62739237923.pdf
    • https://unicornproduction.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/839b24d5aedabf6d3e0981a51224fcab/86387647711.pdf
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf2e65c2c12---36494991467.pdf
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/98570008706.pdf
    • http://chinhlytailieuluutru.com/media/ftp/file/44445753581.pdf
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c49703cf34---61738680696.pdf
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/45682495394.pdf
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/suwigujozimefitafezekapi.pdf
    • 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_off0000f357.bin
943dd5ae20630f1b8cbe5ae51437e85028d00ddcc126b3ec6f294f5b921634dd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF357 10408 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010b11.bin
be1327a47fa35ac1825342e7e0df30a67e56d42108314a980617ff1f195252e5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B11 16668 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013685.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13685 16792 bytes