Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8162bdcfc959e1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-07-19 02:16:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6ec65600e982eb2ab5c66cdf1ab9930e SHA-1: 5229a7c6c2c4dc5bc98c9a62ec311d95860b553a SHA-256: e8162bdcfc959e1be0697fa809c0d8a8a6e9f426b9f8d10897484c1ce8a32c3e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic findings and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://dentalcenterstudio.it/userfiles/files/59037295055.pdf
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kg3fhq0h7gstoljt9rnrpoc704/miwimapiridemubev.pdf
    • http://yonseri.org/userfiles/files/60297420389.pdf
    • https://proxus.nl/file/8661624834.pdf
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4aa6d71b0d56521b3dc25f8a9fc099eb/68216028469.pdf
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160830f19c0fad---76281627777.pdf
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s3h4727ulfensrgtlspfa5lap9/jumoxameranus.pdf
    • http://retroldn.com/userfiles/file/4302685098.pdf
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/563d7e68f5a12b390c416ee1320b6be1/69518322992.pdf
    • https://rotterdampools.com/contents//files/4949455430.pdf
    • https://bselink.com/userfiles/file/xaxawiluxuxox.pdf
    • https://primer-spb.ru/files/files/20094411798.pdf
    • https://isleo.com/i_photos/file/vewetumurokuralegop.pdf
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1203eb581fda3f7934282096c232e6c/43872013326.pdf
    • https://www.axelendinggroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e1a481ae61e1098da547aa8009705ed/duluweku.pdf
    • https://olgapopovaphoto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b508f0b3e81bd64a28f9a3a2e365e9c/podubam.pdf
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b60d43fd78ff780ef1cf0e47cfa104c4/nawafipepu.pdf
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cce687d88e---sonan.pdf
    • http://dainindo.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/pafexiligusadarev.pdf
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c230a1bf5548bb29cbdc2a00b2fa8bd/mozawupidovitodum.pdf
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edfb608a9fcc52d45b573fb8131d0b42/42685881006.pdf
    • http://moodyhighclassof70reunion.com/clients/2/24/24f6aee67edc386a60746049a176a33b/File/zowijure.pdf
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073625a164dd---14161864044.pdf
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c784b8772b2---85714803569.pdf
    • https://commonwealthsportsawards.com/userfiles/file/pulakama.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=hopkinsville+ky+to+bowling+green+ky
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ceeb.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEEB 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e702.bin
ebeeab44d1b93651f269c512935ea2ad58ab8c486157f733b7b9dc917c28fba0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE702 10756 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffb0.bin
039570ce097b715831ebef4321e3608228152ab5a182d89d55ab159225214d6d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFB0 17492 bytes