Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e5119a9cd3c8089…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-08-30 12:15:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 4940c622871273f446007f010b86fd04 SHA-1: af431cd13de3be143da1ecb2e7d07cf07fcab7d2 SHA-256: 8e5119a9cd3c80892d282d61e32fc2e14f3b30178f96776f8c4f5d23604da41a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure malicious destinations or manipulate search engine results. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links indicates a potential for redirection to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://diacritic.org/travel/app/webroot/img/files/zomufekimudulesepazupijak.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://broadmoor79.com/clients/864886/File/28224048111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72e1c23babdbbe7ad3f2079a988482d7/91600630823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74mes1rvkn23uj5mnr7sd66rr3/vogozezilos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rowanmkt.com/Uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vovojolefelilobegakefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hchoanglong.vn/userfiles/file/49768942558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontanarosaserigrafia.it/userfiles/file/61506556571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cncostruzioni.com/userfiles/file/guliram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rts-3.ru/upload/files/pagosamokosemewavawezal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3200cbb71b---lifididigus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gillsandgeckos.com/userfiles/file/dasoxotufopubamaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoroman-service.ro/imagini_ws/42460173960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72155154b089a1e250182115bae4d886/tenofipafegajilasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882c58e4dcd---muxozozoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasvaripalmuzeum.hu/upload/file/33687363219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160868b341108e---83077108619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcsm62.org/uploads/news/file/debumiralaxavaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccskin.com/geektic/files/gagowujax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832e13da82d---lovip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b30a3ed259d---zutiburib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49911ea6dc4042edf11e0501483934fa/15769362172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairview66.org/clients/866114/File/sided.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5e20c29bad---34031866181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasintorn.com/images/upload/files/bozivolonefutajowev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=physical+purity+analysis+of+seedPDF 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_off0000e5fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5FB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE0D 17200 bytes
SHA-256: ab21d9c23b1ab8b617cce758462ff97fb3ce5c9ed51dd7e3dcac558dbddc50a0
font_02_sfnt_off00012a12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A12 10932 bytes
SHA-256: b62d299edad65f1162fbc384eac87f5c8b7582583730349494c9a7057910abd9