Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8971df04b393ed6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 12:21:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a96ce40c0d73a8fdeba547b73b84aedc SHA-1: 5b989fd47b3c518f96e80980ac00fb76051c10fa SHA-256: e8971df04b393ed6e50adf3777e99cf46b465deed92054b8fbedcb14d6d268e4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to redirect users, with some links hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba1c3ab5e2f---zewaligatos.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gursakaryahukuk.com/images/file/wesef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sxhk365.com/uploads/file///puzarokakevifutawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/21648040433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d43dee53d---57661721369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valleyrestoration.net/home/apf/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/deditavamefopipalugunot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuppersbusch.hu/userfiles/files/23103682813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d8d7de93579dcdf2085eaf4935d1489/31032936974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210502040032595637307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuanayapim.com/rsm/files/tejumiporazuvonotezog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardnersunited.com/clients/e/eb/eb3320446930dd457027df34457c622b/File/selarugafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btegypt.com/file/goluzejibiwamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/peduvuvopotomejebineva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kompletucetnictvi.cz/files/file/rasegavifetemogemexipan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/42695532214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48dba4ef2dd36a0029f7594c7f3c0d46/40627470073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40837396124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b114ccc4a21---84492213199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vinoplaza.nl/img/upload/files/muzegufubegusivalupuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f3c986e588---56871308015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a10734f15cbca3af98cb0a4137c0aaee/79604028675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phanphoiongnhuahoasen.vn/upload/files/99801971006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/nokukabado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d47158c8a45---tokodixefoguzinotawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=mophie+juice+pack+air+instruction+manualPDF 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_off0000c7a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7A1 17488 bytes
SHA-256: 5ebfef178fa7b417fb3bd5953bc460a481081787b19539c9834bf45c6b49238b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f563.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF563 10952 bytes
SHA-256: eb58d39d2db4b272ae95aa5503a57953b535c992320a488ee77aea23745f76d4
font_02_sfnt_off00010e9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E9F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1