Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8e85792f3189506…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-08-06 19:04:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5054d521d3a8dc128c2a56cfd06a92a2 SHA-1: 53eaf27fc54f3e1eac257b5212608f32ecd163a5 SHA-256: e8e85792f3189506f6c69adbe80e876f14acd872f3e18122f417d3d4c6f9ce44
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised websites. The presence of numerous unknown URLs, many hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://zezoalza.com/ckupload/files/popazazumo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hnsunnyfood.com/d/files/kiwomuvoxojofajol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.leadercaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buzowolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03f4cb0016f9625dbbdf678ff12309ed/fowenoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076e7be49585---14487587168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/lozedimoviwekogubisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6caiu7hudc4vc14b08pvnldteh/83437408670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sassyissy.com/survey/userfiles/files/waximufetagevifakekovil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b9af4a4811---ropobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phdpecs.hu/userfiles/files/wulekodoximikef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081ce5715cac---tigif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6511ce4fef---64785733380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wangyiphk.com/userfiles/jaximijefaregutemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/semarifigotegipobeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabortech.com/admin/file/tunerinuwakexafej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4afc29f25---37097622756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df7f1a7ea1e83886c5e231584595a99e/93021469108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vtg8ikc8brh8v0qjautka031h5/kaxatedepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taevlingar.se/images/pages/file/64229147485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://universal4shipping.net/userfiles/file/gowug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----9sbbnbtte4cyg.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luwuxuvovujulazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shreenathtechnologies.com/userfiles/file/57247723050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myjobcareer.net/userfiles/file/2021072006244173499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=bloons+td+6+free+for+pcPDF 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_off0000ed47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED47 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001055e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1055E 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 284a2892f7684bb17e7d8a4bae45ff344e00a86f7cb8d9a5859a3a5f15294d08
font_02_sfnt_off00011da6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DA6 17156 bytes
SHA-256: d2d4a30c90036a6db0a91a58ef3d10c11da31c2991492f9188937c2900e0f920