Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8f910b51d586fbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-15 14:50:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 2af4ab10e60ee969c49f3608609b66d4 SHA-1: 59f8c219ad4f50841a313dfe1c1701549f5cb803 SHA-256: e8f910b51d586fbfff5da155c8bdabab3924d7a4863c1cffb2a22e9889e3a8cb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely intended to trick users into downloading further malicious content or submitting sensitive information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://heimundsicherheit.de/userfiles/file/dufopuduw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://maturitni-ples.eu/UserFiles/File/wagemufuropofadumagizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fabgpm4clk81icem9lleuq75v9/vasuvesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioguagnoni.it/userfiles/files/49840725705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/183m866pdu4gk5ln70524nc2dg/dotoxexet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocchame.vn/app/webroot/img/uploads/files/60440363875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aer5aza.xn--19-kmcm3c.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wokalabulivok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duonglaohanoi.com/userfiles/file/62674919749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottonweb.net/userfiles/file/78110937827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demkapi.com/resimler/files/kabewoninulidujesusosaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quesnelbusinessnetwork.ca/userfiles/file/13175248572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://senesi-sklad.cz/userfiles/file/98561847498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucokampen.com/media/files/99524971660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://art-wonders.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/mawegegil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ppogrimall.com/upload/editor_image/file/17672265840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5a.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19975242441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientu24h.vn/webroot/img/files/lukoxotur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613662b1d7447---58939426726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunridgecorp.com/uploads/files/202109150549564936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dyglas.com/userData/board/file/kobokikosop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jkbprivateiti.com/userfiles/file/pikajogurijugenonozafuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksiclubbiz.ksiclub.org/svnprojects/DHD/Source/images/files/bepudoxemigaroniwoxumuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idroilektriki.gr/files/file/19909960564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bensonlandscape.com/editorData/file/75998810721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbchistoryonline.org/uploads/file/luvuxojibonirik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://6nergy.fr/6nergy/sites/default/user/file/kudutukekon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokebarslo.com/uploads/files/vetesunevirinodamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelone.ae/userfiles/files/14499099050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+check+what+apps+are+running+in+the+background+androidPDF 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_off0000d916.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD916 16072 bytes
SHA-256: c9d15e9bfd8f45e0b940b22b612a50e0c0d2f40416fc48132303b1740b0464cc
font_01_sfnt_off0001028e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1028E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011aa5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AA5 11156 bytes
SHA-256: cdf22ec85bbd37cbf1715dadb16a2300fca519e0445e4ace330237901e49d817