Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e85fb21690a5abc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.8 KB Created: 2021-07-07 00:34:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f80b7e8b9df4d7e8f9a81b0060dd05a7 SHA-1: e6e85dbf2db3e6d4d576071fa560026cda152020 SHA-256: 8e85fb21690a5abc4cf874c38e98b63672b99a0ffcdd502076c8718c0ef7a49b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs further support the link farm hypothesis.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://abovomedia.hu/_user/file/83607803468.pdf
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7c2f8cf332---13979140435.pdf
    • http://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/35595338158.pdf
    • http://gphs84.com/clients/866382/File/nikawifewixokewekazilesob.pdf
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcce0d3ac4c---13857573936.pdf
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k9u4fq7i5vvhqk7fv5pfipfaa7/56573344369.pdf
    • http://brandiassociati.it/userfiles/file/72388465996.pdf
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8cc99e47dd9ca26a7db8b056786c952/57106543635.pdf
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d2fd46c3d1e297a05d91ce8a2b0752f/10310231646.pdf
    • http://oticonshop.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40590564805.pdf
    • http://atenngo.com/admin/sites/site/documents/33541302870.pdf
    • https://clickkedai.com/userfiles/file/giduvazowuzi.pdf
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/69687039606.pdf
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1br0hrmekfi2h7r1vavdb9pn46/18964502200.pdf
    • http://cadeco.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/39305124468.pdf
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/506013bdebd3d041d7bd343fa0fd14c0/bukedalafajikuso.pdf
    • https://aspirans.com/files/file/detelosirewu.pdf
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43347a5a95---fikidoz.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=before+after+roids
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607acea79aeb6---68926469328.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011eca.bin
6c91532e05652fbb64c84be26807231da3eac7bedf50b50d8aa3f27e4a1787c6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ECA 17136 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00014b7f.bin
cc504f9dcdb2cd7361fe07c33cb7ef70ad2023ebfe1e9025adbc72944121945f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B7F 10252 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000162b0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x162B0 16792 bytes