Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8f5a27a61fe30cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 22:00:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 81dfb38e46f5f4f1a40ae93feabfc154 SHA-1: d5385e3001961d3c621eb6508f8a69700d47a503 SHA-256: e8f5a27a61fe30cf018505f67f4893b51cb7eca5b913d7688489f9e2d850af93
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads, indicating a distribution or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, are part of a larger pattern of directing users to potentially malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83cffc8fd459576627a54cece1ee6faf/42336809944.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gpmpoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/telexigedosidobadebizil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611371107788a---fesosaxokowabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40eea75ab36e06b0d530b1e3b7ce18fd/20453004224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bixenony.com/userfiles/files/bufumijapuzixotevaxifade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhasachnguyenvancu.com/Images_upload/files/bilukemaxida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenagegroup.vip/userfiles/file/nilukutojur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jungvassar.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/35879360171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/suogpn0unk1d61472ij0frp6p8/nuwezexeguwaligogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deltastal.ru/userfiles/file/dusiwufazedevunetowabidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a83fbfe50d2---vupavale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/lovizutofebamokig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joesservicecenternj.com/userfiles/files/kudalalirisujufanupumiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuonlan.vn/data/upload/files/duriralakuxobunererus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsara.ru/userfiles/file/18835853596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c864cb368f7---18457855192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspirans.com/files/file/vapekafiwovumijaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abe18c2866c---sitikolarag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14da1d6eb50d027a00f42ceb7a8b7bde/bopedexazotaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotang.net/userfiles/file/66178585618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607da1d4515bc---24752166466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cinebuzz.be/uploads/userfiles/files/43015783072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutergroup.de/userfiles/file/tujamuzarisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tigercabinetry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e303361a4b5d7e6b1e2ca5853953a327/kefovofolebamotibuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s95gogjqa47ong7a9v26slqdi9/ravowibenagotabibuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at-studio.tw/app/webroot/userfiles/files/20210725_214839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=has+have+usePDF 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_off0000f5f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5F2 9800 bytes
SHA-256: 0dc152d0aff9a9f882b2952c8903a2f6f0fa402b15b05900322eb1cd5fbed1d4
font_01_sfnt_off00010b83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B83 18504 bytes
SHA-256: 7e0bbdd5c5a489e371e5ae240ff739f7c3c848a0e4c1656cf364e61391959707
font_02_sfnt_off00013c19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C19 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1