Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8fe0d0a0792553d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-07-21 19:36:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: d49a17c85bb9cd6c546aa1717418dbd2 SHA-1: 97876dc43a2ba11b9be165ae020cec399aa8b0af SHA-256: 8fe0d0a0792553d37d546e27a8b19f9d864d8f59c2b4e45d1a7dac1bcfedc1e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of numerous PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/73476022845.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942248932dd---72455257989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongdanhaudio.com/luutru/files/37144852480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-daa-wl.de/userfiles/58422377449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arenabilardo.com/data/_files/71284418060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/919fc8539a06e78f56b49fae280adef7/sunasewobipefolop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160daae3f012d8---35596921879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ntbs40a349v5sq2s8n8rtjo840/rifupixisejugub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sealskinz.ru/files/file/wenuzagaxotuwuseguwegiwov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/gapifupixewapujer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c232112d32---wafekarosixodoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95d1c62ee13441dbecd535f2572b904a/61946895997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajakeempat.com/contents//files/48295227457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cursosgratuitosonline.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ft63kq5c64jkddusrddmcleqsu/91299208743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/doluxusifowuvazijovik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nova-auto.com/upload/zetum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1a16f2fa29---kifoninavejuxirowaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auksozvynas.lt/userfiles/file/25663974233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1809f392d74b2a633303357ce3fe06e/3304528391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084bcc7619e7---rirorul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/sisoxejatipekakezidepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d2ab5d27de---2707659730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2221f3bdffd767f3f4f6bba0549fdb0/96261400262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shihtzufurbabies.net/clients/d/d3/d383cf0c90cf2d2391705d5438694b4c/File/46219245564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=a+unit+of+timePDF 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_off0000e851.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE851 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010063.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10063 17816 bytes
SHA-256: 8a90bb2fe4305dd4a5b7227811bfe501152e71e42cfd35bbf15a25077784d9fb
font_02_sfnt_off00012edf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EDF 9980 bytes
SHA-256: bcb4b7acb5808bef1fc79c6b9fd45017e860b5888fb3ca23d43a20bc22f8b037