Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e847e0f8b7e759f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-07-27 12:52:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 7651b267216d067daacf8776a40fb2c5 SHA-1: dea4b361297a90393f684b221337c2e9f2e02e85 SHA-256: 8e847e0f8b7e759f85aa057db3c1e3bcd6ce28299424ba27b7a751861ed93dbb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests it's designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qv42slm6kav7l1f663rna58c93/34264378852.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://foxadv.net/file/87490205063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techbico.vn/uploads/image/files/fuvologepetobosubakebiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b63fd087f1bc11276d3af7f66b50f280/38615541271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szolnokepul.hu/userfiles/file/83234768223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkaganjil.com/contents//files/52962884058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kcss.hu/korosi/userfiles/file/42045137284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kperrylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/3758863170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psoevalledeabdalajis.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90402079049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-castiglioni.com/userfiles/files/gimadokex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a710b1d94f237e45637876961556bb34/25494332264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072328dc813b---17198041368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haenuri.net/ckupload/files/8714678008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0fadfad061c18a33f4284f7dffec419/69747636567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g5sfo4fg9hr3b63t330v4uv8c7/bitawanudogosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://service-panev.com/userfiles/16178403652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okinawa4d.com/contents//files/1553927217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082fdd68deab---nokokezutogeboju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05d2010742e21ab2ec671d8a11b61b55/99621933064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qioemf8mkhe8ffo7pqltl5oep2/xiroledugudorixos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609324ef599a3---8615912269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotelamoha.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eb31c1fdad---58228146986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788d94b2ea4---xanovubabukalulokikexinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a32d8beb44d---45471211592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=filmywap+bollywood+movies+2019+defaultPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b8c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8C1 16340 bytes
SHA-256: 1bf8eb9f1ca4d02280631b5e24c033515f96c6337e82511f12fe3a94492d3bfb
font_01_sfnt_off0000e336.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE336 11400 bytes
SHA-256: 64972a42636b6d6df819905f118b7791f4f0079e3855266e9b760e66f7eb7455
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE06 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00011613.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11613 2044 bytes
SHA-256: 9ff0be215eda4510cc1b192ab1b3482226358aa5dcf0ff2a485682e2549b9830