Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e08ac3f35c865632…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-08-07 08:00:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: a4315eeb1bd36f9e931bfb5418fbfb30 SHA-1: f99b80a237227cad81444c95044c4c4409c0684f SHA-256: e08ac3f35c865632070d2d1b06de95c127498c463c64184180b46475f048e070
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing content to analyze.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m4m9mjt24li9lkqr3rq7imnjqe/melezowola.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://liebherr-tr.com/userfiles/file/80111405954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flambotour.it/themes/userfiles//files/63739852744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delshadian.com/public/userfiles/file/76059249297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/147dfad8c3d8524cb1468a98990d21e4/2070864048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090b5dadd6f5---jirifodatunewozojedefaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamepinleri.com/calisma2/files/uploads/32903862164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd459510d5---20809939113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagecambodiatravel.com/userfiles/file/55497814429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tootingtaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/42344694287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soundreaming.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d40f1d2721897b252a459f26a059deb3/worosuvuzabuzejotewenuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vgkh1g6canr5i4nfccu0k80200/55890700530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26df55fd79bc5897d4314630a09a6946/59091965582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pranabkumar.com/fckimages/file/43982843166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1tcn9cuvtaa7v6cfttgo1qv30g/tokabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malifer.hu/upload/file/manubajaxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160befe897184e---bibugawimivafoborufub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://22vek-omsk.ru/fck_editor_files/files/somok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.treehousecare.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070eae3c81ef---nideroginimeriwivebogigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkt-optics.com/hkt/images/userfiles/file/musimadafez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gursakaryahukuk.com/images/file/jupafemidavepelinuxokovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee55e2b431c---36127614839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liebherr-tr.com/userfiles/file/rogiloxafojifar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/80872333682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usdcp.jp/user_data/userfiles/files/kosidokusefitef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=does+the+challenger+come+in+manualPDF 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_off0000f114.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF114 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 10704aed67e694f4038881793d225f077e930163a759a07aeb985080237d1f13
font_01_sfnt_off000109b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109B6 17540 bytes
SHA-256: 8d59e341fec0abef966a335e6af47f7730ffeab3eef928ea70c90c8d22459f19
font_02_sfnt_off000137d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1