Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8cced8650b4c4e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-08-05 12:30:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 3826a940b08cea4576c8c1d2bdbdf714 SHA-1: 1fad100ac242873db5a9ac92b00def74ad169e4e SHA-256: e8cced8650b4c4e8b2b9c327c5eb9765eeb0e7b786eb6615d541ee5ed0e8390f
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. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely to redirect users to malicious payloads or phishing pages. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics related to link farms and compromised CMS uploads further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac38aa63ab2---30014569554.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096ee189a811---nesupef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d034d0eb48c75e985fe26461ff15fab/winefojekepesekuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardatrans.com/content/Files/suviwojadomijibire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5dfea76698---xisudiriwutil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1f1b4ca57c---vosupajakakawukok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/49711117354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kt5i9n0e3uajf4n3ipqhubad95/76132126075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/61514588315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n5970tnkris5p80oc0aeamesba/48335100829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akpanlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/benataledutemividux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.net/contents//files/4052941992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abf57ea7afa---62467663206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroroma-bg.org/files/file/zixaputenovoxuriniduwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fedime.org/imagenes/kagixipepivavagutip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160903e5664500---sokabutimumadobexene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wernersuarez.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/65330733215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/40084683531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stensoproject.com/userfiles/files/69287301210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/123db500ec1d07c554fb850ec2c73838/majudorivajirusexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nature-revive.org/files/file/redozoxixovujafojonal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cylinder96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69852390498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d56e9b8d33---90235460492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pn1q19fktnltgnqtch232thrh3/zogub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e48a3fa6088---vimazatepovepivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=articles+of+confederation+%281777%29+worksheet+answer+keyPDF 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_off0000d1ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9C2 11104 bytes
SHA-256: b3a10704d9f54b023a21c2b82eb4022ceeca51a344b7a1c19f5cad16cc8fff9d
font_02_sfnt_off000103eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103EB 17176 bytes
SHA-256: 5373e6bf89b008cbd26968e4c78e295a52684584a3792745723f08fd0aa60b01