Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e2bf88fbec8b47c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-07-13 01:37:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: cae41e5a13771be19f945e144611bc11 SHA-1: ba03a4b25781e752fb7f59a7586e7706f678b82d SHA-256: 8e2bf88fbec8b47cad10a5e384bbb53ceb1148171a8734e6b4a09b966d0a95ae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis confirm the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=you+are+beautiful+inside+out+quotes PDF link annotation
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad4da95bdd8---buketira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgpeo.pl/users//file/kesiwupetolejulixesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/fuvetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u1mnirrm7epj3qul8ocj72hqa1/nujekuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benardoutlite.com/admin/fckeditor/fckdata/file/xidiwopiwos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thienminhgroup.com/uploads/userfiles/file/mewapux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da21e75905e71aebdf934cd0077357ed/tudapor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c3488t2g785m5jt8q9mv10v2g/wupixax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneolock.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/92173336490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/sotadebakibuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestorkate.com/uploads/ckeditor/files/23513767843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artechq8.com/beta/uploads/files/29407016170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccde45d6a1243238c1f78d59265aa4a7/36042177167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadgatecapital.com/userfiles/file/49995598500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abc159bca36---15827159177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/16308145624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705d0232047---62482418571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f68b24e3671847bb724ab78bcf744ac6/dijejidowusixipap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c97e4471eeb---96158929796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pbu52oa1iu3caai1v4mshfirgd/rixuvoveresemudaxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southwestlooms.com/admin/userfiles/files/gexetopataki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f96fc9c10---97339675248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2acontractor.it/images/file/41481644367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-reutov.ru/upload_picture/file/42665124165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f8c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8C7 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 57c5cfaf5b5b6115d83a9930b75663efd28910256e88324e0a4e817b2da0e2bf
font_01_sfnt_off0001113e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1113E 17548 bytes
SHA-256: 44cfccaae59bc4cd732f73a89ca9aedcf131e124b4d17c725d8edd37f870cfd8
font_02_sfnt_off00013ed8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13ED8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1