Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eab0dd6476072332…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 14:21:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: a2f1bfa59b172b1ee7d5c89d8d02847a SHA-1: e2654a0a4c88a18856472067800dff727f851be2 SHA-256: eab0dd6476072332878b7bd03aef5a4b414bf65f238f52848a0ee1a1af1be389
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites using the Formcraft plugin. These links likely serve as a redirection mechanism to deliver a malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bfc52a2fbf---lifarevesobu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/xotuzovipomovanagiwosipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldofpacifiers.com/editor_uploads/system/files/gimuwov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c88a7916b3---63241914134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://berettyotv.hu/userfiles/files/nemexipaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768f99bbf7c---jagogokekosud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papaicountrylodge-longstay.com/user_img/files/37192773366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607628f837d66---64604976003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hophamthaibinh.com/upload/files/13193232851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelmitrutarija.com/uploaded/files/mexawona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a69b5cda4c9f055db74eecfc5088402/90971781263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dharmapremipariwar.org/userfiles/file/77969610133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/up5569au1ktko9qa36bc56m6um/nekadesukilafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ff84cccb5---nufazorewoleron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yukkumpulgroup2.com/contents//files/42596918523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amsasecretariat.fr/userfiles/file/bumixozizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3e37d27ddd5ccb80b07386c929712ed/pixal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d1b88b2e9---zosebukukij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alllegaltask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2qkj7r6siv4h1oc6nuoa35qgmh/muterurariribon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab750e09fdd---jifadup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094adf35f8c5---bakofojunimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4aec3348422e4a22d1dba3819afd70b8/lowexomowegegivur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivierdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74715805486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://waroproject.com/file/68399658112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/rizarevixisum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uitvaartverzorgingsindex.nl/images/uploads/82051554935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thecargonepal.com/userfiles/file/pogogojuzemuvirijezovufiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=humility+by+andrew+murray+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_off0000e46c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE46C 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 06f9028702d59f9a36ffdd966434f21a1d1698252e6280ffe26009014eac5d03
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD0A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001151c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1151C 17976 bytes
SHA-256: bc8c93d4f943083cd97d6fc5e1a57bb9289b618fae7e688fb732d06c9a7b5156