Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8fe361a260524b49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 20:45:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: d6d7fba051422c047bd62940ef0578a6 SHA-1: f58b3a1f8902403dc5208bc508cde716773db873 SHA-256: 8fe361a260524b49917e841bac5c3c93a64a8b2f3a644c2740fb6908747486cc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160834f19bbc6c---46038820142.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160852353e796b---wekuzojiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i6s5f6coofidmino0rgvvjmt3h/jaremabunaxoworotugew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160991e1cf1052---68635855073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d43b21df2f---33141345125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://applexin.com/ttpsea/files/file/menikalipufib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-klub.dk/userfiles/file/85057578444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6d66aaded9---45196606742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiuxingchaoshi.com/uploads/file/161649523648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.de/userfiles/file/77201977447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d9c7e88862---pubolugizusakigutifoxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dineflon.com//files/95289900090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e2660b7cf85e316b970e6a89e75c963/kubem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096b944b7b37---xuvikikatemolukubake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b34d97077bc---xomuparibawizojugufosuzip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a2f80c17ab---vivasilenirit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kgmda.com/upload/files/boridufubodefogajerubud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078868c905e8---73964650907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://factinet.com/uploads/files/57787121386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095bb52c6642---pimexajosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technestudio.eu/userfiles/files/zisinijokir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ba0549554e---dinamenebopenub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0vuraobho2rmnmesu9aur0aeq5/13621608448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=avengers+free+moviesPDF 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_off0000f593.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF593 17480 bytes
SHA-256: b1d2e87d0c8976daeec5bb27e75b4b36d978d1d1fc9acc6080ea22c1f452657e
font_01_sfnt_off00012345.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12345 10296 bytes
SHA-256: 6d0105ab35f8b91a087a2cd9dc6a62221739f5070862a0088cfd7fb2b7d04df3
font_02_sfnt_off00013a7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A7C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1