Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e523d8ba83e620d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 15:18:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: bc9f96ac1edfea6f2e9daec10b4121c6 SHA-1: ea3bd9d2e70d0f49fd4904b96eb689d3f44e9d50 SHA-256: 8e523d8ba83e620d485a59989afe6c468b419eab59d9f9ddc6d3cda52176a3c2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27c9e701b801461123d5dc1bae069915/fezesutikojefujevak.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nicolalazzarotto.com/userfiles/files/zewaxewonutunedagin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akpanlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/birodoramawamami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingbakerypans.com/userfiles/file/60106540978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/15318990068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daieimotors.com/js/upload/files/dutebigore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/vatubixulefakogotowulemet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demetraproject.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/demud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161216ba71acc6---dupizokusuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burragebrothers.com/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/lagorunukalamurarusisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triptoboloyfoundation.org/editorsfiles/files/1008630130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9de94890f3e041a094dfae3179218e59/75597292449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocincorporated.com/domain.com/images/dynamic_pages/file/15719133934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bd8471996f8df3d104f1661b4d67652/45710712191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villahetzwartepaard.nl/survey/userfiles/files/tolusumujorolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotnews.md/upload/userfiles/files/93074463003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ej82cvhqhhi2ipr76innbfs767/59820042842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujiya-la.com/uploads/files/66379978462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shen-su.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/90224445650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockfallco.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160710f855e1ac---69830584549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608036ef9ec0f---2137394089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myflora888.com/ck_files/files/namitexudase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=determinantes+exerc%C3%ADcios+resolvidos+pdfPDF 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_off0000d5b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5B2 11012 bytes
SHA-256: b9568b684c1757557fbb281fac3fa0e6c30d32f28eb0769ba836ccc49121280c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF46 20788 bytes
SHA-256: a05cb2f535f7101bd96936a60843cbda7e1bee90b727d1265857c5e01647ac55
font_02_sfnt_off000122d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122D6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1