Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8138c88472d286d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 20:32:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 2c7aca31f56b05ea8e4eb65f31a32320 SHA-1: 1161ad61dfd8ab42aa5d6a417de7a4925025d67b SHA-256: e8138c88472d286db366dfa81148c417811cb51091b36d2aab1c2487e84ce970
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of numerous links on potentially compromised or disposable hosting supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://rydelko.pl/userfiles/file/67948006181.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/568392cba6c5880c8bf238851e8c74b2/xibavopidugoduxozabebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5otquogro8sdaojkt6smd0miu6/nerolexelezor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chistogood.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vopiwitur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cncostruzioni.com/userfiles/file/64780756459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096e217a4501---56848728362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonebreaker.at/xowifekamotod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e8d3b65da4---37216863204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce1eabbf72---94921585885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076116fe8cea---wexigutewulebere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkaganjil.com/contents/files/vagofiruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rrbrentacars.com/files/others/13702634745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hv2barrier.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kavelameviziwunule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eaeocs.com/clients/c/c7/c75ed17bfa54634cfc1039f1b599a7e7/File/kugemudug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cecprint.com/images/file/36222089588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trickorsuite.com/clients/5/5d/5d84d12f6f4dfd10bbe5497c884a5f3e/File/98798979446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.com/images/blog//file/pebip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sindafaz.com.br/admin/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25555565503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gjs3lim064up5esq6590sbh29s/duzapijixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esprimagroup.com/userfiles/file/65164835125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donkaew-furniture.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87464265293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dc47fcf0570065569caedef8324eb77/47578454981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://islandpointfl.com/userimages/jalikurofekiwis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kasekimi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160791368b589a---1309616759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maginsaatmetal.com/resimlerfiles/48715254813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=dr+john+henrik+clarke+books+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_off0000eac0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAC0 18224 bytes
SHA-256: 75b6239f7fef7d5e7e5dfa1c0e33a4779214d59cb803e52fe0a310aa82c321ab
font_01_sfnt_off000119ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119FF 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 94d088f1ca6a3a33e441a9cbc0fb2205fabe8b82762c40b8531cc9dd5f96419a
font_02_sfnt_off00013318.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13318 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1