Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8e5d57cece6a22a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 06:56:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e32e98bf3b125b8e46491ec17650e1c1 SHA-1: e79186397132dbfd8cc0fc99915c2fc0a8113bc5 SHA-256: c8e5d57cece6a22a265f6e66be44399e086fb9ad91b9e29b5f7dd4260bc527c9
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 websites that appear to be compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://aristosaigonhotel.vn/uploads/files/67606933990.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160898121da567---pofurazufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amazingindiaphotos.com/amazingindiaphotos//upload/fckimage/file/64147500936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aerotechgroup.ru/img/outer/files/pefitinusefekifanez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f87acb5362a788eab25d60ff5ea038e3/lametesajumuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a88b682bf35---vesejesub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4614d938d79367eb1f19c75cb75db0f/71750953573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42d4c9295385d5f15499e6a9bd75d402/46533570365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioaba.net/userfiles/files/jutik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/127aeae6d1c1fd2144444ab45b8cb020/kawokozumexiworuwuxale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ff05ebfee---77001797568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oresteruggiero.com/userfiles/files/50227427058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae26ac4749b---90573283253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09a3c9f3cf098f747cc646404ba4f89a/suluvozetevuvewife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jakspravnenapsa.cz/userfiles/file/bujitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ff740945f39785794c111578d50d826/60435664235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/onqm6s3copmsvk69jh3n0tpbrs/giduxoxelasulad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelausiere.ca/upload/editor/file/togibepuwuxutubawuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9cd8c6debf---bedanapuxosizuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventilyatsia-v-sochi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41095147499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tks-forever.com/upload/2021/08/19/file/69200493953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210502171346112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mingzhicc.com/userfiles/files/tafot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ev-owners.jp/userfiles//files/sofegozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160835ea16cc64---78899019128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=frederic+beigbeder+livres+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_off0000e66e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE66E 21824 bytes
SHA-256: 82b43804239f09570cf7388f64c1eb044aba51ea8866d91d48023d9dae524218
font_01_sfnt_off00011dc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DC6 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 6c90e0a7904bcb954d28c0065194f814749be091d386dbde61abafd5cb7dcace
font_02_sfnt_off00013541.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13541 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1