Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e5eb56ed03568f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.0 KB Created: 2021-07-06 00:28:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: e471b91f619f1b4e19967991c67689d2 SHA-1: 6e5d1dd21b5f92cf805d7027b19e63f936f4ea35 SHA-256: 8e5eb56ed03568f59199a2e9c569e25dca1edce1389a3857bf2a62ae508cfbe8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm heuristic indicates an attempt to lure victims to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9806

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 https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u9h60sf78qlvclicqejr1lkvpf/rizibumo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lacasedescaraibes.fr/file/39274666243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ce5f6a0732b53564e6944c951a5d780/malidow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/32483622993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aab3881ffa4---79679772301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b728d026b875f9901b5cce0a4e6566a7/zutejolumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a4b88408df---34478156921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanseniors.ca/userfiles/file/40441197616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41a8713543ebd4fb0b800f83b123afd4/zemezunesezotelofufazufap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emotionpicturesfestival.gr/userfiles/file/9274360211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d94d155d1b3---1610051272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/053f66823c41334cd404fa45a049ec56/32494625918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nctpa.biz/clients/5/51/51e593b678cc4707ea5ff7b662bcbdb9/File/31034817448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f02c4f156e---repijodebirumuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0ce4803564---bubiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f682ec4878---71683119754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbm-mova.by/images_from_html_editor/file/riduwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntct-dz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84722060627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herve-coiffure.ci/files/kadiraxotifupizigopexiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.puhito.hu/uploads/24840200700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuraski.pl/wsg/userfiles/zupejasuwamiwovidoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a275091d3e6---lalibuxugobad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnafarms.com/clients/864068/File/dimoxuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakoca.hu/files/file/96724124098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68aoh6is87k7h1ogsqp9jbgvjs/48964609876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab4f2ae291---62725475023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608093cdd4553---womatuxikirexoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=master+of+the+game+by+sidney+sheldon+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_off0001082f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1082F 11192 bytes
SHA-256: 58a99c0073f50f2d2b260931fb9db2a58dc8ede014c4733caf8f9d39e9250b1b
font_01_sfnt_off000121c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121C5 16988 bytes
SHA-256: 2b6e7fd5bdd492cfe663b551f9546edbad27492abaad84b79835cc837421a105
font_02_sfnt_off00014e34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E34 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1