Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea6f843d35e72061…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 12:47:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 746f5f1cca91af6753466f1921446e97 SHA-1: 86eb2736a086159145a1dad1eeb86c3d49516a18 SHA-256: ea6f843d35e720615daa4abc4ff50f73cc1bbb9324ee4e2413ca70106e562d0d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier with high confidence. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the links suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070267623dce---jodugowirogodalobisagipo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8e457e542---63492408391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubler-son-capital.com/photos/files/75677391444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphjako.pl/userfiles/file/pokijemifikuzudezalogeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6e4db43c24---60632217981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609492e414007---35186364998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milwaukee.center/userfiles/file/sufevupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872d77b417e---43956095892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66da07188b5294b95fa46368866e56bd/danezuvuvudipidugodowaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhk-aindling.de/userfiles/files/sabunadudir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a44c11b9ac81a3341841558494bb814/27092278246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e85c8450908---88681128201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.com/uploads/file/17542747302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.herbertvanderbrugghen.nl/draft/16147856167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/16862368085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/glsom8oer4ui61tgr39kasi8lk/zadav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4c11795e399e122f1f35158b96b4fd1/dezufipuxofused.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://collegedelunion.com/clients/76066/File/sifeten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moveo-sport.pl/userfiles/file/22134155827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emauto.lv/index/images/up/file/64139477961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibextrail.com/editor-images/bonetetukelozokakameru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fceabfa4ee7795a73c3c0b9b6dd77553/45774065371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8eaa0c6f57---rififobejatunudesemipil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=les+expansions+du+groupe+nominal+exercices+cm2+pdfPDF 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_off0000f4f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010d0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D0A 21244 bytes
SHA-256: 0189368b89b0763c24ea67da4e6f5cc7abe4881cb640f67ccc8823077b3cf847
font_02_sfnt_off00014308.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14308 11144 bytes
SHA-256: 028f12751117d8ad72baf30ea67a4c9747e71b785ff5f8aed89bc3b9c64d30d4