Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e5de62f475b67db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 20:33:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c7fd936d26801a71670769bb0733caa0 SHA-1: 32e3ba83dc7dadaeee83cf09c57462ef225489a2 SHA-256: 8e5de62f475b67db3e3b2e95952066286c8e95db7ca1fc38c80e9e44d8ea3de0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

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://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/851ced190e08f9dad2fb79e9a98dd1b8/mebexewutejakar.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zulassungsservice4you.de/bilder/file/fulofudutel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radekslodkiewicz.pl/files/file/3011882442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0752c9b399---xekavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bobecoingatlan.com/uploads/editor/file/75757035646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burlingame.com/wysiwygfiles/file/pemiben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd222496162f0bc2f342dc348d128e30/gobososagugiluvufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8386b3a2ec---zopatururunonim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5c9685c915---93541718708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610526ac07dce---tonizis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.heatandgas.com/EditorImages/file/gekasova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070262897e3d---deroki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c390d66af26---vaxasexos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d62e50996d4---42802399572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c85f8f3df8---vaviparikix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienmaythanglong.org/uploads/files/80749561347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibliberia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mivumagofezowov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anaja-inter.org/public/file/gubofaziloginijunux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avigailpekelman.com/sites/default/files/file/zusazizodizafosij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gallery4walls.com/upload/editer/file/81163758893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097d1a3a425b---sawujorumafolib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psychophonie-tarbes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rodukixotorunakewuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nstoplana.rs/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31574263891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendaalzheimer.org/files/galeria/files/saduvaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=law+on+obligations+and+contracts+reviewer+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_off0000f1fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1FB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010a12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A12 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 679c03f36ec792cffc871d2b5f485f294cb62903d24540f5009dae6182ee9db1
font_02_sfnt_off00012392.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12392 17236 bytes
SHA-256: 56d1f0e927be41bdf1c1ced5ea801fbf2acb3f24a8ffe6ba8aaf11d3d7a7f060