Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ef0bafe452bfb71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 15:49:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 75db57dc00b5a9a834f1aa37abf5d79f SHA-1: b06dcea7a59538255e01a02e2484cd21c540cc82 SHA-256: 8ef0bafe452bfb716b5a266fdcaa50480d1e5bdc0be287f2cf44e29a4fbfeb53
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 sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis confirm the malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://erdenetpost.mn/userfiles/files/viwosigibivavamaw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161211bcf73d44---runasex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.westcountrystoves.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3fa8a8d99f89bbfa31b55e520349f59/dorofuxewukaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/40385562329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentherapia.hu/files/file/32810874784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archissimo.eu/userfiles/files/93222416345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86d329fb0d56a40c0d0da23b1f65f316/98838136492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160948990528a0---76940721879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/484295dc7173f7c655cca8e39e11b774/24756272366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d4d2180a8a---febux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asharfilalkulfi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77637545553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mpwlawpa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gulagiregozanasuxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infypos.com/infyposcms/media/10224611906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagostena.it/userfiles/files/kogavunibob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161241671d8280---rapejufuxakivid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.gr/upload/susabopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greaterdeliveranceministries1.com/clients/61527/File/kupimapofopozamitakapova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vd7p6hvpc06i3q5jkf23k00tf3/76851318979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpdb.org/userfiles/files/mesogemaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63dd4a253e62743fce2dd7976a0aa87b/paxoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educationindiajournal.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41130530574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/16555889582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/rubalotevuvago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=interview+questions+on+php+for+freshers+with+answers+pdfPDF 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_off0001051b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1051B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011d2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D2D 18220 bytes
SHA-256: 5c0bcd92da4ae44f3962b695c2d19224a3c920d4abcf955f7441d0a53231521c
font_02_sfnt_off00014c58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C58 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 2cc0de07ba6534aa187175ea0a2147b778a464d46e8fce873dcbee8d865f3e6f