Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0efaf7e3ac410bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-08-16 01:24:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 682dea095dbce29a69a1fa003aaad9aa SHA-1: 946a8554022a5ad86dbc6f1a7ba09b49d8059cc8 SHA-256: e0efaf7e3ac410bb45076a0888ed44be9c0a8fc05cc1ca3a9523c242b96a52e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of UTM parameters suggest an effort to obscure the ultimate destination and track user engagement.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fit+body+boot+camp+schedule+byron+center PDF link annotation
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79j19t6ips6p9ov6u366ptnnts/jonavazuwafetama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palcev.ru/userfiles/file/dibepepasanexatanipato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b4018d9d5a---wilam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8c871c4440---rajifajebenigazisolox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e35406ed3652e0898c7dfd53b0ecf380/27938000377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapalettedesarts.fr/gestion/file/mewuramubix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7961d93f87---lupazotozajenanelewogezel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmediahouse.com/admin/uploads/file/zapafexufovunazenaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bronia.org/userfiles/file/51304668772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakkue.com/contents//files/41307042717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://townofwinslowin.com/flash/townofwinslowin.com/file/58124874960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f518104242---sarezijib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wipaphun.com/UserFiles/File/jiveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hodori247.com/uploads/files/bilebajebono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081d3fcc9b00---10857499254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-pasz.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59487525698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a6d07514a---98642231920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872a6014232---61105817515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/11551393192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a9421ad72154580692b7f1d04ebde08/53484134836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/effd94ab68b92568aadf4807c11ee48b/pizokulomigurasagaradejel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burmeseburmilla-allevamento.com/userfiles/files/sufemaxolojefetolid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wsbtitan.com/images/file/wevubiliruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02a4f77c2abda8e4175fdba0fc444a95/nozuzexubezopiforomesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perksys.com/userfiles/file/43704589992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f77619494e---7802406866.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_off0000facc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFACC 16992 bytes
SHA-256: cb00b9963c8dba78ef82036559813a346db305e412e6e0de7514daf65c795eb9
font_01_sfnt_off000126e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126E1 11112 bytes
SHA-256: 56aee6d9057e57c3cde01b0ac5477dd2669e6f69cc8cb615e79e98e01add9231
font_02_sfnt_off00014066.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14066 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1