Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8ec62edb8cb94df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-20 12:18:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 4e53b8371780f2ad8d14a11cc35032e7 SHA-1: 937613ca5c5bccd8950bb684fb15e31d428de4df SHA-256: e8ec62edb8cb94df97af8daebdb224ab8805a2d6b4a11e4451a32d8f9abe3704
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://bagstyle.uz/images/file/purududidulifanozaworad.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f23dd5d0251b6f609dbee441e595b4e2/79835674902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lsno9e0c32civ07mos31b0h9dt/15281479501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088e5692a151---22936252027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fentesmakina.com/paket/upload/files/27643799574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikankara.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2ce0baddd---mogonijuvetev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ce199367993ac59692614ee03d8f2fd/vapel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ihotel2b.com/upfiles/editor/files/dunizone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d52dd10aa2---19282566719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4adade969---fujevuvilosijigezipimiwof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7741df72f057ed7e5b4bb0c56f7d4726/59871730355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4ee864b067---11038942477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewaves.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dk3dv3gudm6etebkbs1dkboplj/43822464795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf1e03dad1e---vazebim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savoie-outils-coupants.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28220821139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweetbasketsbyjackie.com/clients/864293/File/6260496179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/pevivivufebogijax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e642576a5313d77138c9e161e9b39ab/povufulekefubewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holyfamilyhospitals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/redigeziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/add1c6be7f9fc608cae4b64e00c61892/27901113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodegoncriollo.com/userfiles/file/18015114132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polymer-optix.de/userfiles/file/rinewupekatizem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c225d8e2d96---zofubotulolidigul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6fb54011ac---zixepalat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+download+books+for+freePDF 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_off0000eb63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB63 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 62c217ff854728fa5cdf302f6039003cc070ce6b520a286eeb8fcbd0b7bf1e61
font_01_sfnt_off000103ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103AC 17232 bytes
SHA-256: a7a6c414001b8491d9ef20037812f9ff540892e67f2ca68d1f50109f196d7c49
font_02_sfnt_off0001306d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1306D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1