Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8fe08b2307cf59c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-07-03 11:45:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 2f1d95309f123e1696f110c040d21f55 SHA-1: fc9bd82b0df4695cb44fb4027083551da7dd1bb5 SHA-256: 8fe08b2307cf59c679e49cd9b354b7123012258a54799f03811a26afb15fe4dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this malicious intent. ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bpm41pv31a8tnfjg8g0ugnd9ff/76665379456.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52u7k4lgpg0lmu3r5sr76037p5/ravumeduwugakodavamixega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160706ba44ecd3---radotewokamisiwenirori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba51fd1802e---92703915009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a4ea56e175---lisofuvimexewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dec5112a4f80e0a3cdb1864618c732b8/91487192353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohappy.org/userData/board/file/53692815838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daphongthuyhueminh.com/uploads/image/files/96135843821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rmjqriebq42bsaelq3l05nbnsi/fotanoxatovavib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thaiboat.net/image/upload/File/moderodaguwuputi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/67442075181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mahkotacare.com/tmr/userfiles/files/dezunujojomixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6d03ef0dda---65100674464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c821468edf---43337589815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e58819cfda679a3b634160a33c69b5f8/40092681769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petraifevronii.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65863070152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.com/uploads/File/gepur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f347486f6d8671c7dd70ddc341ec240d/89367936436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa8ca18f957dc9f1d2f480e79c8a5e97/81270615263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artenika.pl/fck/file/54520686171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3ac82e0b7---genabakuregit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argentinaproduct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42038304378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=list+of+relational+database+management+systemsPDF 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_off0000e5fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5FE 10908 bytes
SHA-256: cc79d5f856fe0173389b010379b7abd6b38b50d6834af8971e928410eaa73da1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF04 17896 bytes
SHA-256: 30516cb4018c2cf3bee6e3803a17dbb8b51a6602dd3fe8aff515dc938814d163
font_02_sfnt_off00012d17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D17 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1