Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8ad2475262d7346…

MALICIOUS

PDF

119.4 KB Created: 2021-07-23 03:23:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 21436075b7a20d542e16fba7babb1a97 SHA-1: eeba381c67901e30a56da57519586cb6a1b9e68d SHA-256: e8ad2475262d73468e144d3fcb4c195a854b46b5759396e1eee629b912234a5d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or other disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/77134657298.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://amazingindiaphotos.com/amazingindiaphotos//upload/fckimage/file/47085785081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2a2da3874d---40817908146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b42a190edcd---soxizebijepenirin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czerwoneiczarne.pl/files/file/jimejir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8aeb41faa2c7bd7072eac37e31864bee/pemajibemulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94d304b51262b0e4b6e3f92095f210bb/ramifiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davidfauquemberg.com/home/fauquemb/david/bbdg_site/userfiles/file/xanasawusedizodaduwafej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ho4e8dg5pi0geljmfvml2rndm1/kovukigurorofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.serenissimaservizi.com//files/tupuxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/wiroxigajodakak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7951ab4d0f1fd30c2f2e969e8cc69d4c/56748257114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adfea09fb51---3134255698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/dozado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stolizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/94385420188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ascinfratech.com/clientprojects/trading/file/dapibelavuliwimofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t8euk0d3rliud4fp0bj7qn55e7/26695191774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/js68e6m1617kb83kb99dkukki5/pesefajasadiget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phonphangschool.com/upload/files/xevuvabediw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/57197164090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/526f98kgahco8b791tjgccc2e3/doguwekobonixajeweko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4694b9ed9e---30110189561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avandcie-energy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gezito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jingluo.net/uploadfiles/files/24704021045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chizclean.ru/files/fck/file/21715436952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40e23353b9413471893944bc36bb7ef4/raladixepuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=best+colleges+in+us+for+international+studentsPDF 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_off00016916.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16916 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00018128.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18128 20996 bytes
SHA-256: 378fb34f1695e3d4f93f535dffa5eac1d97a6f506c403b2c5bf7ceab9b1a6f46
font_02_sfnt_off0001b5a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B5A4 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 9ad69cbdc98095b173b06322b9abb0da376989f9e2fa6ce0f741f3929d4850ac