Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8a804701e634111…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 13:04:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 6a02b4d576ed98bc1d486ee0ac9b772c SHA-1: 8702b8756f772cb4c5e3060a9883cee9765ff94c SHA-256: e8a804701e634111088924a6dda440785dd5b2673b0d5c4a047cd8e0c502e35c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The PDF structure and embedded links are consistent with attempts to redirect users to malicious sites for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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 https://alaqart.atelierleuthold.ch/userfiles/files/xesexajudojipupeg.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mn9qv2ev5bkoptl14bg0bmp4r0/boxunorupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkmmotor.com/files/userfiles/file/sapivisegipajaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f40246152589e3fb1f1190411b4a0a94/sexiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i1vuupu8a34iluu7887hdj8mon/13821168892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/jofane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/gopajenepawigagalida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8d23d774fb---79748979727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcoliseum.com/uploads/files/32594123044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078eea527761---30459778640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088fc8e1fdcc---5222773940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiachuankeji.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-18/20210818023525970086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibmetiz.ru/upload_picture/47403618861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svsteinfurth.de/radsportfiles/file/tefuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1608d3ceeacb2f---janufobavog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/032acbac71b87fa3e138825e1d34b7f5/vufofilojikalosenuredof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratco-hardware.com/Ups/files/24412608535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vindindex.nl/images/uploads/zaluvivagejabogel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yeosung21.or.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1626121596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shatalarab-llc.net/userfiles/files/jogonozikanukideragopiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fc2537f64a4421306a918a709aca3d6/40312027767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859a50a73b9---56446851320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b65986de0fed710943eb96445d2a98b/70487394355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/218dae0920b6debb87577adcb617569a/30781180767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=pluralist+approach+in+industrial+relations+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_off00010a08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A08 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 5b215d3314fcc438cec98deba980dccd86011f3bd032b5fec85b35a2d5255900
font_01_sfnt_off000122ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013aff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AFF 18836 bytes
SHA-256: cbc9cbacac9386b3a90265d8ee2e04b6a2b352a9f881aeb8c285187b21f5d8bd