Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e8b6b8a2a8db0ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-07-04 01:44:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a074aaeca095f040ac673b7dd14324b3 SHA-1: a143da6e8abc977acecfba7667a103dc7999f362 SHA-256: 8e8b6b8a2a8db0ee76f47bf79c5bfeffa3bd4da7c3a995dc213ced939c6cde4b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a downloader or redirector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://bhs-class1957.com/clients/35434/File/25233293432.pdf
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076220d44f60---19816279002.pdf
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090bf7e3a043---zezeliwini.pdf
    • https://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/44535205388.pdf
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160972b27ad2f7---81439716219.pdf
    • http://kxnjl.com/userfiles/files/nelelekaxowe.pdf
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d221bc9ab9---dutetafumubagamu.pdf
    • https://telewebmarketing.com/FCKeditor/file/lalujoxifizegajufalejefud.pdf
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af87ccbe0cd6a50e4eccd16f10687df3/mutebumunop.pdf
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/27018719761.pdf
    • https://blsautomation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zapaz.pdf
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4d70fe058c---lipuzefememolalupikud.pdf
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e80cc3efcc---xemefa.pdf
    • https://kp-bs.ru/upload/files/16095865459.pdf
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/xedetuvigawafol.pdf
    • http://ned.ru/uploads/files/memofalufosiposerebovov.pdf
    • https://sssmri.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vogepijozuzi.pdf
    • https://harom.ro/files/file/8515080025.pdf
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f907933ac---setad.pdf
    • https://bednidhitraders.com/userfiles/file/42816213114.pdf
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbd122dd06637f26dbc8afd2f021e40a/49164584852.pdf
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81d7e9ff903246ff57f0de23cf1355ff/kumijujaxerusom.pdf
    • https://baoyi-chuck.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4388756943.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=student+assessment+form
    • 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_off0000e7aa.bin
6c191c1c8c04491762e0a2ebc9f008e53c23139894377f325a17171dd507d45f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7AA 10552 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffb9.bin
0b9397dc15c7f95f4e928b9e3938b034487437ab9e7a326c611a145ab245461f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFB9 16684 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012b3d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B3D 16792 bytes