Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e6d3a335e98ba46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 12:06:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 010cc8873880eeeb58e7b1bc4c8be23e SHA-1: ea7f7e22453efd550ec992d9bf7e98a1418d1144 SHA-256: 8e6d3a335e98ba46cc146034bf6f88658da9f46c1dcc13dc555ca86fee7fff55
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of numerous unknown URLs further supports its role as a distribution or phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab5745bd4df5bdb3f23e3e51bbc68d3d/kiwon.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8cbce481c7---fapatamovadudebijevibej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chronocertif.com/userfiles/file/dabojenaremix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/pipaneko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/65277511849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voszveszprem.hu/_user/file/kefirow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d5f240580e---35437503475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytopics.it/uploads/file/melozuvedugepowixizepabop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3f0cfb9f59---zanusojexisapeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/122ec6eacbaea38f0e7287da5f49c5e0/diguga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38bd76c3a454b88da0b986bf7338bc81/rizebuxoluvinamenufigur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://g-shocktou.com/user_file/file/55259545511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansecyr.ca/pdf/file/fimidepoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff071e3c84d2247c9c232770a7b597ad/1156067323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070fda261296---59971551989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b9edd2ac0f45bf9d01ea78f18816738/rofid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ymvii.com/admin/upload/files/5719659192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traktorpulling.de/ablage/userfiles/files/zamilofopuzed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jghsclass75.com/clients/f/f3/f322050927ea28328664fd088939ffaa/File/71682794889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designbeginnings.com/upload/file/xakawabixujumenise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10f40d4f1356770ddd6d25473331a13c/89021644361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pieseautocomenzi.ro/userfiles/file/35381677618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c46c8cb39---17225655678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dewalt-naradi.cz/media/upload/editor/file/54060491874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=inventors+and+their+inventions+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off00010160.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10160 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011972.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11972 19352 bytes
SHA-256: 897aa021f6d11ad6351a0785a6485aaadaf3ae800d1ac1f2d53ecef41c5c2656
font_02_sfnt_off00014bbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14BBB 10700 bytes
SHA-256: fd87f6a4095fcf8b47863e50e378d6332c42cce0fdc635caa1741edd53b07890