Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8eb13a00b264468…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-07-08 01:29:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 58e0d785ee59de3c8dbd26c7acbb2fa2 SHA-1: d99396963fa967b7a47fa1310102b06081fe77b4 SHA-256: e8eb13a00b264468e618fbae6fe8ffb5c5b239230fdd40e03a91c831345a186c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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, pointing to multiple compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or engage in phishing. The embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm heuristics strongly suggest an attack pattern involving luring users to external malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://szpital-sulecin.pl/images/fckfiles/file/58423014772.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609017ec7abc5---33112285388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc310120588---94417955801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f95090c81f401753d7b85f497899f19b/58663055072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a94dd3a46f---28127011434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatifitspossible.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/validegobuxoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://west-holding.com/userfiles/file/rupetakuzixopabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorgubernamental.com/images/file/wivifugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-pasz.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2242141881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frutapacargentina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/numanugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1d2b538b6---11887369865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608865fbbc563---29714128108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szekszardportal.hu/userfiles/file/7343831209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e149515faeaf2ca6a2f0f4d70242a0c/zagosel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentherapia.hu/files/file/buwofedipupagedupotokike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gikguamerica.com/userfiles/file/89643044351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609161b4ec325---97343757193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aafb682cecc---2800031220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kueapem.com/contents//files/moron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9232792f869006736278a5e0fa98d286/vewopabumatisoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gz-theoutfit.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210612111610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0c13ddd12---77308975929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paroles-vives.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49886373725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/201aa2k512ijqotarnbrplocic/33799830570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ea35ab549---98142203222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=sony+dvd+recorder+rdr+hxd890+manualPDF 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_off0000bf87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF87 16152 bytes
SHA-256: 229bf9ed96b8af98925b837153bf78231761b8f4596d4493a80fbe2796662d8f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e83c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE83C 11232 bytes
SHA-256: 3d08fced82859d584aa5440ced90d48c82e28dc119ea03d16299785372fde5bc
font_02_sfnt_off00010268.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10268 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1