Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6eabd01b16ec1edf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 19:25:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 4626e0f6748f1766a2330da3d4989850 SHA-1: a866b9bdf4ac226df5d099b7e7abcc7cc2127d0e SHA-256: 6eabd01b16ec1edfaa459a7b046dc2e7064ec21caf49288c32cd09ea297b49cc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and the ML classifier's high confidence score further support a malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malicious redirection campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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 https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608919631b3f7---19646887199.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be737365efe---pomudidojelelafafujij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dribblebar.pl/userfiles/file/45030301361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097668ad613f---81598861982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/panipopobejopurafavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citronixdeflection.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/nujetikovit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/847576d4186eeadaab5d23a85e4694aa/fotux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k5v5oihfk0kk7bolpunst76b8e/mabanumakemoludezimugufup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/juxuvojinoxonisaban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a9de1e63818028140a76cc11ede072c/tefusisoxivibeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.makattakasinti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081eff12febd---26042321797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cff6a226a12a5507975807a1ae046c8e/mazibutofipurij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.demetagras.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cafc20d6b5---21024993756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adf4fb6e9f1---poxuzobijoximaniwawul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosaison.fr/userfiles/files/18667826155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ufn30sld3ttih08rbn7ubock6/94845809309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/niribej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blessedfamilycovenant.org/clients/c/cb/cb727bc273eb4203dc66fb73741ae5ae/File/42689865883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/90426281516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e0cc85dc0e---xutozefowezavupozelegevuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa981bbb0b---makowudil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8780fca2f900f0144ca5c1a5bedec805/kikemobenibulezasofuzuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gld-lining.com/user_img/files/58656834238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d43b43fd4657bb86a39b0446704d3fc/roxemegolexavoberubosej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43070a0e7b9ed05af4a23e369309d258/zegag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e084f66e31---kufanuzufixojamalibizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74b1e3eb2c720ae4a99054ccfe8e41de/7319683312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=share+market+closing+time+for+intradayPDF 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_off0000f3c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3C0 18244 bytes
SHA-256: 92cf78f0a22a542630d2b9c3fcf112ac6fb0d8c6559848c2d21178ca2d6e7116
font_01_sfnt_off0001237d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1237D 11204 bytes
SHA-256: d2e52db182f7cdf2242da6cafc8c7a64778da88a42370f0473d1b85d435b2b4c
font_02_sfnt_off00013d59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D59 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1