Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e61b406740d5951…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-21 17:49:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 4e52ecf9eeb06471808f30ac4341b16c SHA-1: c0db167fb31b60966d82c9dc7f1d53a9d5520f7e SHA-256: 8e61b406740d5951c1702b066db264ceb83fa95d4c39df02602f92faa68edb83
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, lacking clear user-facing text but containing embedded artifacts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://dydlhx.com/upfiles/file///sawefivakokujijibero.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://srtprogetti.eu/userfiles/files/safevota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148f61d9648e---nafoxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unibeauty.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44325007026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npi-management.com/ressource/site-image/files/19071128098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manhalhealing.com/userfiles/file/lofofibovagizarepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/861dc30da4114ae5519e8d90a24b79fd/20061217976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://35ju.21tg.cn/uploadfile/ckeditor/files/23228636540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cg7nm7r0682icu8piu8dsctup5/fisexemizov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.info/contents/files/noligabafizesorek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetportonaccio.it/userfiles/files/raviradiwurikatafixesin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e3edu.vn/public/ckfinder/core/connector/php/connector.phppublic/uploadsfiles/62892819096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuwaited.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lezexanilumusawuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canhtoanland.com/upload/files/tekobepew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bevasilicones.in/userfiles/file/xoxutoluwikunujox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibangthuaphatlai.net/uploads/files/bojemovikodemamid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f53f2eddad---fiwijusulitatigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614139297c2e4---28020542010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://havefuntogether.com/image/upload/File/82905698376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andhimazhai.com/images/files/muxusirowuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://literie-depot.fr/UserFiles/file/dutevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiangka.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8115991880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spad.kr/userData/ebizro_board/file/menubejipinunawiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malabarmail.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90219477094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ark-mr.com/data/home/qxu2063190031/htdocs/uploadfile/files/87722794936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=green+mixed+with+purple+makes+what+colorPDF 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_off0000d4a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4A7 11196 bytes
SHA-256: 93727dea0851745def76e4088c0f48c97ead10ff446fd75e25a6cdae24bc94f8
font_01_sfnt_off0000eeba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEBA 17312 bytes
SHA-256: 416dc63dc05b431a1e3b34b4e97fd9fa8e019648563d9290b2203e884583aaf6
font_02_sfnt_off00011b36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B36 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1