Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8956bdf7b0654fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 07:14:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 8d295a7c6c4f2658232f33ef693337dc SHA-1: afec54d5d0dffe67942524d4ddca63ae5056ed76 SHA-256: e8956bdf7b0654fc59ff9784600e3f2f61023a5f6b50cf456948274140ec225a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of multiple 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristics strongly suggests this malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/11580171821.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611e74889b65f---98882763819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb91edb4a2bbb563bbbb85b008866735/jazefutofovubazasuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87c3f99068b15af5bb72aba8efaac3db/53304512711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6954e0e08c5aacb1b99bd41d0fb9b5ec/lusilerinexoreneperup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veiligheidsslot.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24943929519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--nellieskche-0hb.de/userfiles/file/fagaxegoputerisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddab0446cf6---58281154469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wexigaraxenumopitin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlumacz-bialystok.pl/pliki/file/xogilutuginaxavikifobagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://info-jimukyoku.jp/lot/upload/files/godolatugevufuwijogug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35521e78f5675bd7feb02b6c9b4c1346/41226856577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65f3967f8111e4a76be948b161ca30c1/bobinapiguzajive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veewood.com/file_media/file_image/file/xinuwofofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46672151973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dc859514f2f88aae02c789aa0959b10/tumenat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conblocmanado.com/pics/file/38817287783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0fe882662e---36693596358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arlingtonhigh1961.com/clients/e/ef/ef36f0800c0a5d5a0b00d5ecc8c3c6da/File/gelumutefidagoxanadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/xoxunamagipafopimesejudev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://associazionedynamica.it/uploads/file/86770614019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10s317.com/uploads/files/202109010720215366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=lateral+flow+immunoassay+book+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_off0000e491.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE491 11148 bytes
SHA-256: 08f2085af00aa8ab522e6b6c3333073b62661698a136eeb4ea826ce0fabbe33b
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE79 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001168b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1168B 17868 bytes
SHA-256: 2836ace3b7c35871dc4978f422d938d4f68a2e80684436e209aa542c518006fe