Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eab5519cd59ed95a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-06-17 13:55:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 1fd0105b57eafd4455e557f4877c70e5 SHA-1: ef65f139b88f8711b9142c652cf770445913457b SHA-256: eab5519cd59ed95ab82fd1d238ce93455582390cf55fdd931579c5e468f0ee08
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external links and the overall structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k42m8dk13kebb7plsakg50apue/69281583856.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pmuab11u3ch245phiad82hh8v2/2466586535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c06dd961d---94129158519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078bbf6c3bb3---lafubunuboxifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2400cbdacc7e01486db7e6bd2918e10/41846875443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfh-filter.hu/_user/file/26098507823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b1cdb7a943a15f23f227c6eff22b3ab/ziregaleku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://espaciocultivarte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/woxulibud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705fa803509---98746988075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160744421f0d31---16790275901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160893fc6a3972---tadigukejeledo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokorny-podlahy.cz/UserFiles/File/17245666866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ijap8ti3k2g08fufd76lmjlfhg/10089689077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doo-san.com/userfiles/file/20210514103848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090b676391db---sumixusikiludim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=angel%2527s+last+mission+lovePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f6e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6E5 4992 bytes
SHA-256: a0a690a364c3c3232e419621026d9da56c36b3e8185570339d4ab393f3bc1af0
font_01_sfnt_off000107e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107E4 10604 bytes
SHA-256: d90a3017d1693f7fa3a951608e93e41db1bcf3167f7e4feb82e89d5800fd6869