Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e3bc95f63560399…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-08-24 09:50:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a668214c4deeb068888bbe7fecdf09aa SHA-1: d9ffc83ff7d7f99891cfaeda862631b0946375c2 SHA-256: 8e3bc95f6356039930932f7871115f86d649fbde1297dc2602158ac414e7c5b4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm for SEO manipulation or malicious redirection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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 http://azseal.net/uploads/userfiles/file/fuzowola.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://luberoff.com/userfiles/file/56053613969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nodka.eu/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60022664070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monticellotownship.org/userfiles/file/53425824357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1608a1dccdd3e0---figekaxaxojiwuvudime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6eb7bc643c83676f68fb9eb22261469/1305725219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stvorki.ru/files/file/tuxole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slp72.com/clients/7/7b/7b902bee17765b19ebdde6030f24742d/File/92022630503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scenekunstskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuwulunumodufuxaxaxijifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://residenciasanamaro.es/userfiles/files/zixuwigatif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firmabudowlanawalczak.pl/web/uploads/files/1250784522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imaginove.eu/data/Files/82587299029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607032bf7acec---4341085739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a45f5adbbad---gimisivowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607027d209e78---zutano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/tutusokomijivimedegavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroisvias.ru/userfiles/file/91467267738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--hy1bt45apoap01a.net/jangheung/userfiles/file/xukakij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/19746560959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89a4aa5aa5674211f46e69b246dbd935/fujodevafejat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/428302de966aaf1fabd2bc70be334903/7343857141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beulahcooleycollection.com/clients/870349/File/bamumus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/36227442658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca78d5a21e351a9bd06bd045f10697e0/nejug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biswasi.com/userfiles/files/43617206925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=thesis+structure+essayPDF 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_off0000e979.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE979 10232 bytes
SHA-256: b956e8763c827db1884df9a78566d2a5b2866bf821e8d79615daf16282424746
font_01_sfnt_off000100b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000118c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118C3 16248 bytes
SHA-256: 329b826d33eb64d7423e6070562c21ecc27e0f2629830bc592a310e132ccc17a