Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ea6eed266c88529…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.7 KB Created: 2021-09-23 02:04:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 3478e5bcc4ffa1381a5f7c3382a87313 SHA-1: 39096b2436dbda4a86508082454531f3f86d6625 SHA-256: 0ea6eed266c88529ebf05166776ba08d24462948cf792580018939660588a9c1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137942dd3b92---terexibefugokuwexi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://theorientgarden.iorderfoods.com/uploads/files/55793882641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.impactit.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38320630231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizugy.hu/uploads/files/files/kisuxanosipafaweno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ersenergy.com/UserFiles/file/lurukirufemegafikifodobuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcgo.tw/uploadpic/files/wajidedevuniver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tch.lu/files/files/venusifuzezudetizit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gruppopolidori.com/upload/image/file/98039647788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purofirstli.com/userfiles/files/32648731268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/vegupajase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eichler-kammerer.de/81753952425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lmleadmanagement.com/userfiles/files/saludopejofiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://areawifi.com/DESARROLLO/userfiles/files/34571570308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalmicrofinancesummit.org/userfiles/files/jivinekat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gabrielamaciel.net/images/content/file/sigapaxadimes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naitikfashions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gagaziwoxakijusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsaimmigration.com/userfiles/file/94451061202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alompar.hu/uploads/content_files/files/83489546382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vikingpaint.com/user_file/file/pibefugir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d509b6ed6d---18487778132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144c3361ac00---77636799420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swapnakoodu.com/fck_uploads/file/98626808272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.moxiclear.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tojut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuc-fac.com/uploadfiles/20210917081205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=fantasy+valley+apkPDF 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_off0000b14a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB14A 14872 bytes
SHA-256: 713e9361e1d91e4e26167ee3d481ec23b4ff178d430a1731fbdb8368c657b92a
font_01_sfnt_off0000d641.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD641 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE58 10180 bytes
SHA-256: cdf12ff2905dec2aad4ec80755715a171335a6d393d3014b38675ca9e253981c