Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eaa75c51ece3b41a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-07-03 20:14:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c81ec59a6ca24ae5b1118ee70f13b8ee SHA-1: 30d55993183732d646f75b72b0334a0c18b35abe SHA-256: eaa75c51ece3b41a7cea802fcc1c3cb24e54faffe4ebb7cb38f148a11ce168c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host additional PDF files. The embedded URLs suggest a tactic of using SEO-optimized terms to lure victims. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific content, but the overall structure points to a malicious redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cooking+red+lentils
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d19b347343faeb4faef5d3afe2690577/dejolepelazababebogilime.pdf
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/affb95a4af1d0626cfcf577ef66d7c87/xapojoxomomudopedi.pdf
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/31264524629.pdf
    • http://lesen-und-schenken.de/userfiles/files/xifelade.pdf
    • http://asesorgubernamental.com/images/file/sefuximubozunap.pdf
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5c1c1ce507---rabarorurapipojav.pdf
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaeaf04342f---91097681098.pdf
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ua0veh5qtb4ot5tpdiir8385e4/bozamiva.pdf
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afbf3c50bbe---punimekit.pdf
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097a07ae5507---72606789265.pdf
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc49sq1v8khos957biscrg6k53/27707931612.pdf
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc3fblklbc4n34klpdbv44lg72/kasuvewigejominodupij.pdf
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/30988712902.pdf
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dcfab05fce---sigitekarojiwubeg.pdf
    • https://nazragame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/80810703653.pdf
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da0a3f24cf575854421886c0e1bb90aa/70416527152.pdf
    • https://e-uchebnici.com/img/file/fewixavolimafubifilufu.pdf
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5pois37erv60qe1uhh0bimj1h/54422212293.pdf
    • https://esz.jp/img/editor/files/tamobikiwojebudukanexo.pdf
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfa82120dde---94157164217.pdf
    • http://thebeautyofdesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42862990122.pdf
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c80c1a3142---jafagopo.pdf
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7042a004fd8c36ce06df4d58ffdb9cb1/24717663028.pdf
    • http://sl1971.com/clients/5/51/517263f0417f9379c67e6eba0e0bdfe8/File/vobowaveretax.pdf
    • 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_off0000f0eb.bin
7eb405d56f40d899147e30039b375fa9804dbf576ee895f3d8ce8be7e4d1ec50
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0EB 10384 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001085d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1085D 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001206f.bin
10eb47e8f4bff76674191e72888ff73de7e7f7960730d73185b4b4fd42b13e75
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1206F 17444 bytes