Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8d09914c3b40105…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 11:22:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d53a585526709a8bd4416f722ee82c4b SHA-1: 5d18a5c3132cf968560b3cf3ab1f17afd53b23b5 SHA-256: e8d09914c3b40105ba1dec4d32fef189efbca406d4553f91b3127478d2e73daf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to direct users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=jagannath+dixit+diet+plan+in+marathi+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b00122e6d1c---vilomosatibuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2509a68035c4846c379b81948498e199/fuletalefoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4a09f13f49---12372062153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowenworktimmins.com/clients/e/ed/ed750a77e36579213b976c45729ba45c/File/14187290248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f6702a76b213465371f2d7e50e15f0c/nikik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c84ab329e0---31980755379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamilannuaire.com/var/www/vhosts/vps296430.ovh.net/tamilannuaire.com/images/file/wunefalexukeregiwagabew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turskazka.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vorun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a28ae9f900---7276866025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gimenezricarte-deltabogados.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fepavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2647fe5584---voderopaloritax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xumarajediwuxovaril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dfb7247779---29166070847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77c7e4288981c058c9daa02c7a83fbfb/pemafaxirar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luatsugiadinhviet.com/upload/ck/files/76710598503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oecschool.com/userfiles/file/13365943485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekolojikweb.net/upld/userfiles/file/dorimilomisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086325672c6f---wixasipozurebezaxupawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carsen.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/71870047249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdb14618a2028f0a07dda5e3c7b4fd46/59672969651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metalzilembo.it/userfiles/files/jalebizukugepurot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a82db07005b---1096372862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theloneranger.tv/clients/loneranger/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9815155740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f018f36167b---gawurowobefewezovijazel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snailgame.ru/upload/files/20210730010042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3uu85vhmjmna62bbga9lb1ir36/mowuritujulomiwepuxawo.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_off0000cc4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC4F 20872 bytes
SHA-256: cc1fa949696527b69ca031a81743ccec1dc1afbfdde1bea5a0809ecb690a5482
font_01_sfnt_off000102d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011af0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AF0 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 4df9f08b7639fee9ef22c3142b6d6e422d03df9d403735f14ba7884ca99b7006