Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8eeeeda4d5fee9cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-07-27 15:37:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 681350e60fd4877e742d70d01325971d SHA-1: 0ca570252a944f6cd40608d1a4955ad0ac6c76a1 SHA-256: 8eeeeda4d5fee9cdec851a75b06e3ab9f9b0d1f02ae99054c30afcab447e4263
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a link farm on compromised CMS uploads is a strong indicator of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ofokvedd4jj3b90tqi57epic0/pejuganixozugizaku.pdf
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e976bd19727---51570899201.pdf
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072fb3a6a998---31493648391.pdf
    • http://indianspringhomes.net/userfiles/files/xevafosobunojom.pdf
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa0a4722dfacea36b841ae6361676b60/52737423452.pdf
    • https://mashtalkandil.com/userfiles/file/81923605705.pdf
    • http://www.vljainandco.com/userfiles/files/52533605187.pdf
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tr1m0n4mta3h0g52r3plp0p41k/76069006391.pdf
    • http://tamlaproject.com/userData/board/file/65919841258.pdf
    • http://leadershipcareer.kr/fckeditor/_upload/file/kedoxixos.pdf
    • http://articolo17.it/siti//usr/foto/files/65931830801.pdf
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edcab158685---17186370388.pdf
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608508489313c---tutanapejud.pdf
    • http://bawaconstructions.com/editorData/file/11958061034.pdf
    • https://bobecoingatlan.com/uploads/editor/file/niziviwitejat.pdf
    • http://shsuorui.com/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210624/file/16245549161990.pdf
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095600f42512---xasaxuvevewutadinepateb.pdf
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3bce2b258b---duremedokigisolabezirib.pdf
    • http://hrjok.com/uploadfile/file/wisavemokidivifililadamin.pdf
    • https://groupunsur1.com/contents//files/makamakaxovezo.pdf
    • http://suankaew.net/upload/userfile/files/77135314961.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=coldest+states+in+usa+right+now
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f7fb.bin
55ba4c928f41d22c78d3f5f7f54c5743df100c22240f7727d320312cd93e3d5c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7FB 17128 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000124a3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124A3 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013cba.bin
c5f568068c611637823d0aa9eff4bd99bd445e5fb78ebcf5ff47d783c7eb44e6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CBA 10744 bytes