Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0af2e3c3c1cf017…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-07-04 01:27:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: c139c4be9ddf235c32f98fa04a654063 SHA-1: 33f58d837f31e66b29cec1b8b24ae065ba68b63b SHA-256: e0af2e3c3c1cf017682b019fcd57740c79d009df07bf74a4e7afe10c868bd569
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, identified by heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM'. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the link farm structure suggests the PDF's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8vfpka3s2f9smmpjfi9mi927t1/zopatokut.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160927048600b5---85571208110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a84b36670f---tefoduresiwezumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4968a9c58f364cc08017156691877bb/zolokoselokenuxozepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/343183a18c4d264dbdf9d93d1e595d6d/vofulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099b73071ce3---teboxokagajum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oilmachineydy.com/d/files/96227116330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0r1pu5iru1f2ieuikqink62916/putenogupef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traviet36.com/upload/files/69457997201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deco-interieure.com/userfiles/file/jonamagokezigegadoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/zisojoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anpo.vn/upload/files/nenumetoredaxukedivudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c046cd7827---pekobabetexobup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sbm4vulptugts210v7mnrc6911/kegebidetusib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c005bbe84fa---66634072159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e54b51916ead1afc4e5ff17fd37ea8e5/lokeroxujiserujirotuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/20002528089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9iqis6cp1j40emg0qmgo655gf5/26034309144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5a411afe4a---vixijilubetixofibole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cde698b769bac8f6c3d00e563635f80/poxukepemom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609185526e3dd---wazuveka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://subarini.ro/mm/file/65368033284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15af2053b0ccd0ca80c04ce56931b744/49826780046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rgn2u.com/userfiles/files/58429439880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodabo.eu/userfiles/files/bipukabasop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=in+accordance+toPDF 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_off0000ed7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED7C 16868 bytes
SHA-256: 88b3f0e25dcd8c09a43549eb6625373864c2cfbbcbe6c64970de28298ab62d5e
font_01_sfnt_off00011926.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11926 10008 bytes
SHA-256: 6844bf9f7381e798ab282367a1ac9a69bd1872f5a72ce0bdceb835c59809c677
font_02_sfnt_off00012f7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F7A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1