Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8dfb749e09111cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-08-17 07:08:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e7ddb32d403af4ad0cacc537842a89e9 SHA-1: d11200bf35648c3bf38dfb060ceb966cffc4848b SHA-256: e8dfb749e09111cf2b8bd038ccbb89a278ed088528315f48d7341a331ff2b44b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm heuristic confirms the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://ancoraeducacion.com/images/xojosilojezatusidap.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b050a3456a1---mepokunomebosubevilapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tannhatviet.vn/upload/files/1339450753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbcmedia.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nifawaroniluta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611937f989950---61061586492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac3adf8e953---98854529461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babamoleskine.com/files/file/16319862181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ypperfect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mutekij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/kuvok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remont-bez-zabot.ru/files/file/novirur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jlgardner.org/home/jlg/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/miwex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b27581e818d---3409798562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd3ee464f4---59536538059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9497d96d7e---lukelezewura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imapbook.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/63166585143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hemoroidklinigi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca3fc062e7---87119049041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16ef57920cc44c2995e0bc41486cbcf3/tisada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muacuoi.vn/Pictures/files/tumuwosegozunas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be309779873---merawoniwigetaxitarakoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobilieroccasion.fr/uploads/file/buzanilopitexetefipitomum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/697f6c1669ca936d111fa5eb54959ddf/6220327200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/pigelotezamupevidego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medica-brno.com/files/kesalidaweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/44149773549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+download+microsoft+access+in+windows+10PDF 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_off0000e9c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9C4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000101db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101DB 10888 bytes
SHA-256: d9d4119e29d90e2f8f79558abc200e8759e1be2a9b6c65945a5b6173e973fd9d
font_02_sfnt_off00011b10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B10 16568 bytes
SHA-256: 9f8d29d488b3f15a501c0ac6cb9b69da3538ff76ee400bfebbd270e5f36aa800