Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8c14eeef0dedf62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-07-03 10:57:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: e56465f66ce1a412e2c546b5dc9fc490 SHA-1: 88aa3774cb8ce96ea0fe52383a2be50484fd9be5 SHA-256: e8c14eeef0dedf62e56f7f30856bf27a1c0e8e8aaa32097a4355de0868181544
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of external URI links and the classification as a link farm suggest the document is designed to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vision+out+of+focus PDF link annotation
    • http://jncs.kr/page_data/file/20210619065012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d9f06e51e---fudukopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abc-tel.ru/data/File/wawefidikokefekujedixugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kururlaub-ungarn.de/bilder/files/17184045989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ae1ab9f7afa995fa127d3301b123215/delekisotadiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c58f2573557---57023108119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n4qcgm9pg5bes05tdejtac6oo3/ludifixadelobadirisikuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiuruvedenlukio.fi/tiedostot/file/xajunasizofaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harasportcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mlbr6pk1u21tj1vf2gt5k8jsrj/58776689055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbe1f3a679e---22492032242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160969effd94ff---39339842223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/spblfe0h5upv0cuspjmtn5aq2t/49336643687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.buildingmalawi.com/images/uploaded/documents/rixaverozumini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03f087049cc30388f78c804f9f9c84cb/28151545485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/bumutudadotetesolusobif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldarim.ir/basefile/hoteldarimir/files/sazemimanet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildpflanzen-planung.de/file/gozusurafodakil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/dajogemetokevigiputopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bed16add330---35181382817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2lr0bvddktmk0po053oo2kv4mr/zuzewaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runo34.ru/attachments/file/rijexorenujunedotati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cn8q3g629krtdpn5v9hk7bf9e4/60245057680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/014d99f48fed9f4870ce424006ce64cc/23067332142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95f3c673d401b4b75c907155ab5bf615/baputoderero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/tubinexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e92a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE92A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001013c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1013C 17072 bytes
SHA-256: 901ca630db427edc5ff56156c5a5757e7d6724284541b381ed3ef9b07065a3ca
font_02_sfnt_off00012ddc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DDC 9956 bytes
SHA-256: 9bba79cd61bb9a02d5bc8062125be6ed497f4b221ec14202d61b0547695caa2f