Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8880c0fe686c322…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 14:14:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 044eaba0b0211a6faa22c8761b7fcb90 SHA-1: 2eb2dcdabda4a7276d9a0f20e66986aefa4eba89 SHA-256: e8880c0fe686c322ae82974de02a806a3203f725394881bea0278cc461f9fe42
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to redirect users to malicious websites. Multiple heuristics indicate a link farm structure pointing to compromised hosting and disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or scam campaign. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vogel+inorganic+chemistry+practical+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://smn1970.com/clients/d/d4/d44d2684521ac238e4bdef02d06179b0/File/vukerulofuridoxuwite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nesthomes.in/userfiles/file/zosera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drukarnia-warszawa.pl/pliki/file/60230378197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e786711dedb0bcbaeadfad1dd4efde0/42348581799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29cb5c3c773be1bb42bc86c00ec23333/mebigos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.southforconstruction.com/frontend/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tebafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biotop-zamosc.pl/userfiles/file/26359993602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a46af4e484c---30775794482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088a74a74da6---67419266568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a48250204d7---32154412337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8a93c123d---90146628985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.performhabitat.fr/bundles/astadmin/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35098059329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608de5b131d09---91565220505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altinhediyeler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/58707190700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metaglas.kr/userData/board/file/botesefuxegakegamadugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menlopark.com/wysiwygfiles/file/lekabivolarimorokituloxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/488a8b6856bfeca5e3d565b937d837b9/pemugomulitapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/84957070213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichigroup.net/uploads/news_file/kabimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giovanniseneca.eu/userfiles/files/82403282237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gz-theoutfit.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210827204301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veoguidecostarica.com/ci/userfiles/files/48184467200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a51f1a291b5---puvazokoraraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a41d4b8ea9ed58605d6137dacbf2a5d/roriwizirorofafejinasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointsourcegroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/607f328857df30ec16a6bbee5a299210/juzadanivewiwexan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splhardware.com/UploadFile/file/2021082208264473499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d8b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8B4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0C6 17960 bytes
SHA-256: 00767d2bdafe4c890f132cbe3866c613c7ed9c68448ab8e91a3078a7ffd5d6ab
font_02_sfnt_off00011fc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FC1 11384 bytes
SHA-256: e981d0ede166eb6cdc43b9a46b22fe6c5ff2a291529012e2b874ef778f6b77f5