Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8540a9612c34a06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-19 14:52:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 8e73d2b1752c80366fbacbf21458ab68 SHA-1: 45f05d8e98b3dc19c02f55f853ed4f1bf8de3009 SHA-256: e8540a9612c34a06d7604c73f3b97721e7bd19ea7d5561597bac825e62c44578
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://prosaison.fr/userfiles/files/zamupudorovivunaki.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b229172af5---71111523432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://randoquad72.fr/userfiles/file/13315456329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-wesam.com/userfiles/files/63712789684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topoint.net/userfiles/fckFile/20210905210803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioaeditecne.it/userfiles/file/83953168005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgtofubbq.com/uploads/files/52415154528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139a531ac0d5---66901669690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computergramm.com/userfiles/file/zutog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/60991675190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protradingindia.net/userfiles/file/pupadawituri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appinaris.net/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/pudefesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nedimgame.net/calisma2/files/uploads/96652049157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajk-opakowania.eu/upload/fck/file/43327623235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ana-jsc.com/upload/files/17147924835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockhousemethod.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98205973057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.fr/userfiles/file/25258971343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.moxiclear.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/novepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioingegneramato.com/userfiles/files/69392952734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acgl8m4gp5ci3est53tn0sivi7/23188050258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myjobcareer.net/userfiles/file/2021090401113673499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cabsfromheathrow.com/userfiles/file/16981411244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lyonsinn.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/67143598381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akemi.ro/hirek/file/wodegeveki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.naabelectric.com/userfiles/files/ruweworivofitetoluma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=wps+button+connection+androidPDF 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_off0000dc89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC89 18432 bytes
SHA-256: 4710cba4c33858b58dd6e8a8b2d1ad9204f6f04016f5965cbb78956f98227927
font_01_sfnt_off00010d28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D28 10696 bytes
SHA-256: f05f75c208d1df1700211f8ddcf691d04accecbdf80e3fd1566cef5e8e3b0a61
font_02_sfnt_off000125ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1