Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8eba95859e041e28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-08-04 11:57:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 948edbb6c962f03cc83ce359e3ed9fbe SHA-1: 544d7dde2f02efc0c3be88f1a85b535448242d92 SHA-256: 8eba95859e041e281598e6fc14f24d401df3a6f8b6ae0aea412854735c762f04
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics strongly suggests the primary purpose is to redirect users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://szabobuszrendeles.hu/files/files/labalemuronab.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://446888.top/userfiles/file/vidusakuwiketulikisuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a81066622f---57042057854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otvorene-srdce.sk/userfiles/file/48034577135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b27852106b7---ragelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bimetoor.com/basefile/bimetoorir/files/12298133749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3343df24f302bdaabeddf0e3ab4e8d1/71122728033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beastyenergy.com/userfiles/file/fobapoderabulif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6876f9b70b005bc07055b187492042b/84633120786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinafunnels.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mgbngeeohvh95dst9d7o4f0lum/38008823337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba6799aed7---godokokutomukerujaxutupib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cecc223829---netuneli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c907f5586f---62786774833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c042dbbe47d---nigibelowarus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43bcc73fe08bc847fa9035311ad5233b/dewup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otoozevran.com/resimler/files/27632313654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabtur.ru/upload/files/70044149133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiddeefire.com/media/userfiles/files/gegajeguxojadufagakuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fba49f64ee8a0c48c1a47def7d9cf2d1/biwiremigijodem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillcountryawningsandsunscreens.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160712b5937c61---sukezelarujulito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfbi.ru/content/file/raxemikunasisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drkoopman.nl/cmsimages/file/zirepepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=filme+abracadabra+completo+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_off0000ed80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED80 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010597.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10597 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 62752e91de068655bfaa084565ce4a33b5efc855e945875ccb0fc44ccb894bd0
font_02_sfnt_off00011de5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DE5 20128 bytes
SHA-256: dd932216b99451e32927c47318cb93c900de10390ea3dcd8754cb84a26cbb610