Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1eca23de9231d85e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-07-20 23:28:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ab8f4a5764d7b6db79cab86af7258dcb SHA-1: 8c235ecff1d0637731623665cc914b1efbcf1b70 SHA-256: 1eca23de9231d85e69d21b39a690e3845e9949148a1f3f2552f4e4d4f8eaad40
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The primary function appears to be redirecting users through a chain of URLs to obscure the final destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acbde84a49699e9c3fc3aeba0f8ab45b/22920568923.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.ps/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dukejusojupenitenasemopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/24922646293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987ac2aaa3d---10780235458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efjatkn3rt2g9igjr5b0n96035/91965277948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theleadershipworks.com/PO2/UPFILE/userfiles/files/vozigego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labcoop-jsc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kektjqcv0q8n4p864moi3s3n0a/900828319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girilawfirm.com/content_files/files/87494187917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elnativocoffee.com/silver/upload/files/16024760974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c677e4a4969---xunasapokezapujev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7339316559d27e5ecfdb978550454820/4851502261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5163637b5a1c0c5c97efbd8a12bf0c7/raxipixegupularez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cengilli.com/icerik_images/file/zipafemikab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reelproductionshd.com/userfiles/file/29727833228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9547a0a0fc8c2046cc355f0aeb43d8db/pudukubob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ligonfamilyreunion.org/clients/9/9a/9a44987365eba454cd9b2deda39aa7c0/File/tejux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/861c7132e034e8d32d76deee7ab952e0/sogefunabev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amrapalispot.com/userfiles/file/42972151299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyiksem.hu/uploads/file/xikazofusesabejin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atenngo.com/admin/sites/site/documents/gelakovulepuxunami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f06f1df9d---30499521249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biurod9.pl/public/userfiles/file/39866808854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincentpopetutoring.com/clients/d/dd/dd6b7bcf94cac99d3bed97cf8166637b/File/80963903136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=what+mha+character+are+you+quizPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a740d29b874ce63bb934952a3ff520d2/siwuposujarafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000daaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAAF 17504 bytes
SHA-256: f4050f614228c9beb76bab6b5c87451ee2af4e5e7fb1734e752678c612226a66
font_01_sfnt_off000107b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107B7 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2aef68a84eb665b71a28302a2a068b5bedd149ff7d2590c34e6e71eb56ed5f
font_02_sfnt_off00012000.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12000 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1