Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8158f90a0fc1971…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-07-16 16:31:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 00a81916bea57eb71086c8a9a8e475fc SHA-1: 9a23c34f60d7ac19bbd851299dd23f4e9d58f72e SHA-256: e8158f90a0fc19715b4406ef4d9aa922593f29f55c4af5fa038514c370cd07b1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, preventing a more detailed analysis of its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://tutek.eu/userfiles/file/rufoxovifu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://terezmisszio.eu/files/file/gamijiwozogutebejunokuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e6241c33a9648d305d3e61a239f571e/dukisazivumazalixegademo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsoa.cn/userfiles/file/42730451610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608164b1d1b46---16236225703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/pikubozizofukepogomaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panama4d.com/contents//files/52896492907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160932de6e8b95---9688712222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajakeempat.com/contents//files/43525336486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb6812fee6---pafer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2d0acc1edb---judibet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/moxirotomadizotuvusewum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/firib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrr71.ru/upload_picture/52364976618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentimresiklos.hu/upload/file/68640921402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb45c3047b---63974362330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nfmfpbgfohhh5lsn8lac8erbc9/dodevikixebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turismopontevedra.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30370789555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qpshouse.com/upload/image/file/4686579457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/240052088916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e98283518---50611012416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vayamcs.com/content_files/files/37840394022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=bass+clef+to+treble+clefPDF 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_off0000f08b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF08B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001089d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1089D 17624 bytes
SHA-256: 979576a16ede9766102393ce1eab2cac98a6bc98d14d611d2ef06b5a0858c148
font_02_sfnt_off000136d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136D2 10324 bytes
SHA-256: 3e8c1632df5ee5dbc1f4c844779136d2937064e004b5396212ac31a6d941d1d4