Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8af0048ccc0cad5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-07-17 18:58:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 65905b90b473bdd2639e864b487f3bb0 SHA-1: 53fef287d165e07ddd3441dfe9c128475bb6e0a2 SHA-256: e8af0048ccc0cad533c08aa9a1644e0c2922dcbceea1114c14e66ff9e6bf3cb1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or downloads. The file's structure and URL patterns are consistent with a link farm used for distributing malware or conducting phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088d108201de---xudamemiwozukowozav.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b75f59aae60---70544564216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f968c36ce09242dea33ef5ac83da16b/fufij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0837171a37---22794585085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alzubidi.com/userfiles/files/87075929054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zavalinka.by/var/upload/file/31504162520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nso8ou5dfrapi4kj6gui9v8604/43796832214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xaydungdonggia.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/leromokux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfc22cb12f4b94e70bc65101261719e9/84532240741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alllegaltask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0tstmogco79qu9f5dntcdn792q/62454746451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075706755141---saralasonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0ab468a18fade33d1537f5ab430bd94/62722484321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cmgd5sj2401qdi27qghpnqsr9j/63044811807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.monts.sk/upload_images/file/nutunusadafogusikomivoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae087dd5ef0621317abbd488dbc63615/55844637973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valve-toho.com/userfiles/file/kapuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinoboxingclub.com/clients/36032/File/19463867784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809e2fbb16f---58352366972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computer-rudolstadt.de/upload/file/46507900440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8389ebc11c---78914041824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhs1973.com/clients/64426/File/xufaselomajugevoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tgars0lotccl15jk74qfh6sr30/20959047942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f513b06b0---34979302285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoalavender.net/upload/files/zuvejib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=examples+of+repetition+in+graphic+designPDF 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_off0000f3a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3A0 11152 bytes
SHA-256: 2d50661df493a24a0c7c53aed810ce4ade8340c6d08f1ae73999ec3c1ff34e61
font_01_sfnt_off00010d44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D44 17924 bytes
SHA-256: 1030e8bd8865ab13d32f5b8b6e480e9c5ffc8ad5d26f7fd8c0c8ce20b52d4cca
font_02_sfnt_off00013c9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C9A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1