Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e2f5adcd5ad3e7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 18:53:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c6e8c7e5e02ac8a4b5de353e9bd37e66 SHA-1: 19f5fd1af6733a9e0281fdf7ca64c221c391a051 SHA-256: 8e2f5adcd5ad3e7ba35117688f0c33c9ea7c17e5d6acdbe4c1ca2f90494e2486
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, likely to lure users into clicking malicious links. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://mimpishio2.net/contents//files/disujowabonifedizebagurim.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fbcf8bdad7d---70667373399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbc.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dovoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d69725ec6c7---zidivobededewegifuzased.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golfproradost.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92056105050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jordanfamilyreunions.com/clients/5/51/51534e3e38036466a76ca8a024fd4923/File/81087128106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kristaldicarlo.com/userfiles/file/kinurevibewimas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bjl4q8d2tf78roguv38cmbe613/tudufagiguxuzox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160709430e90fa---95437794275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/jokebinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9205bb4281---kagesazor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db601273e2---97486466962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabiocaronearchitetto.com/userfiles/files/47770368004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43ee4e6874---worujudotumupoxoxutoboxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://union-montage.pl/userfiles/file/17887787166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jungleflightchiangmai.com/Uploads/files/zaratulogatixulidajogek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lacaune.hu/userfiles/file/figubozek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6dd667b86b---gefipiluxive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkaganjil.com/contents/files/35656654886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoybowlramenandpoke.com/uploads/files/21222272261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0488afe5b153626d0de5ea4d481e15f9/20693075565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098e66901aef---58287388889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9c05467f16f6449156b8480c0ec48bd/90637247383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azizolace.cz/images/file/61519703547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artstudiodesign.it/userfiles/files/78071230824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=converter+chm+em+pdf+onlinePDF 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_off0000c3e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3E7 10652 bytes
SHA-256: b42300d6003265333dc6cd9342cfb5fb33d371e0b2d5e9e80761e6fedc05e57e
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC10 16372 bytes
SHA-256: 626156c7d8d0a73413558fd83c11c6a7d03b62a6e8f770c0bfe7db0150840ea7
font_02_sfnt_off000105f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105F6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1