Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8eda2dc526fd4eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 00:44:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 1ea6d0878ccfc3073134d8ea764086c6 SHA-1: 72f30615beee1fd7932950a3ed47ddd406c15ea8 SHA-256: f8eda2dc526fd4eb48db0c97d75e9b0aee8ef4f9bb2be732eeb719de71c1051b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of these links and the overall detection profile indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3a064d74b4387a677967877477ef5db/19816903483.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160879df054f34---32860430995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/570n6nq3fk0crhgmgeut35iau9/20824659619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vucert.vn/uploads/files/6033148459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkinshigh1966.com/clients/1/10/1054c114374c88b4a165e91103565d41/File/xulaxuvipuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erdivigado.hu/userkepek/file/750463849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theartofdesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98138839987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e7494e8a2dbd13d609fea745cabf402/99395613314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7seapharmtech.com/Uploadfiles/files/jumozexefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cafca37780---jafaxitiposozaxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5d4bffc9bc059648e8b89f2398f05f3/49064652380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9cc0a00c89---77736813683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b28da3bae---29292066441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thaiboat.net/image/upload/File/95305060326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunridgecorp.com/uploads/files/202109020328457263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ritascreation.com/userfiles/file/46729218260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shih-tzu.ro/files/file/65471626384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richfieldhighschool1969.com/clients/868116/File/40435310022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/nojufinikesuzime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodcomputers.ro/2664/uploads/zimuberivuvitakabovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaisar168.com/contents//files/fekanufawozoxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/776624763b7daf65e8d9ea299e30a311/56276831909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=turnaround+management+pdfPDF 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_off0000bd8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD8B 15696 bytes
SHA-256: 571c49ab8fa1731f89bd7904626e89d053863b8e8b25de63fb5a10ecd6c81673
font_01_sfnt_off0000e57a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE57A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD91 10596 bytes
SHA-256: cf1c001abacbbdd5b95592e784a7e6b6b055b19fcea3256444eff5dcf1c8edac