Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8efab2acc9864c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-10-10 22:44:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: d769b0d8e2e92b12d7a80c9bf91d7270 SHA-1: d7af730d63aaa0519019ba7c1fe7831472f40285 SHA-256: e8efab2acc9864c652901ed9c9c78d4dbc5cd148fb9c4f1055ed61216bd8f873
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics supports the classification as a malicious link distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://bonvoyageindia.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39980248135.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bednidhitraders.com/userfiles/file/9165262282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landonintergroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xidiginozoxegomefiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.verneteco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bixumizekimijireres.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmhu.eu/uploads/uplib/file/50763702307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijpdua.com/contents/files/43095346352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58ae6faa965dd9c40caf9f1bf2757019/biludepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laetitiabernard.fr/images/file/zefukavemexosekevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kymkarajok.net/tiedostot/files/16078025997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukicda.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021100719111680554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/47095945891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marthomaiticherukole.com/userfiles/file/dizoziwirituxoboxonibaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taitaosuckhoe.com/uploads/files/gesajidipenutowatuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conniecorsentino.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/naxakebozazoxowefar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16150952c22efd---moviwazenaxorafebokojiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foreverymuslim.net/home1/forevev3/public_html/foreverymuslim/upload/file/golukovudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.beverburcht.nl/upload/files/zofosawuzajugixozas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keralahappyjourney.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13878337347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yournamebadges.com/withyourdog/cms_uploads/file/guwelujoromutuvejifigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimzyonline.com/userfiles/file/pesariduwanudajetewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pincailight.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021093022183673499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumusjitu.com/contents/files/19195979872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/35405015043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140021494ab3---24282611083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=reading+text+for+5th+gradePDF 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_off0000fccb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCCB 10700 bytes
SHA-256: e688c8ac776eee54eccbd43ee1763e0e1983328d2f2612b04d252fd9be0a2c2a
font_01_sfnt_off00011520.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11520 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012d32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D32 17244 bytes
SHA-256: 3cc1326cb80b6dab781ed8d5a5d3abdc5b01c3b9df5405dc21e53d85e7ce602e

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