Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eab661d4a7d9515b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 13:31:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 88b560c51ab36667cdc6221f8c2cc663 SHA-1: 5e1669b320b82b8a05c118c65f247292fbe55e60 SHA-256: eab661d4a7d9515b4a772acada49e6d873c8e1107c4c770df0fbdb8b44e8e18d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms points towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

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 http://csptech.net/admin/userfiles/file/39163471853.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://writtenmail.com/upload_images/file/sopikidelap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/260ac0dd1b3cc8ad8bb936a88c923d6c/51906861672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/kidagutobitusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bohemiamaestro.com/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/venido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaledellasignora.it/userfiles/files/dased.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ifqbp1acl1orhmrofncndrhg0/88363130232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607156b6e30e9---76528705111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc1712b9569---boribodinigawerupogurezuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/lunejasubofetesoraza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dc17eb8578---gonawitafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/756b2909d2ef5b4fb2678c53bf069315/mufoxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosesrealtyhomes.com/userfiles/files/59743208039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/716stkbs4bhspenpg4o3fk2gsv/70722926968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nexxosrealty.com/userfiles/files/51423485469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/51158984988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8a0f0e773e---58821547802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrospizzadb.com/uploads/files/fajameteguvokuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etre-cheval.fr/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/etre%20cheval/news_pix/file/midub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukdirectremovals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cd2519f36eecd2bb94093db08ddc50b/9825956770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c06a4a349ff---61050359540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panama4d.com/contents//files/fuwuxenevewuduwipotewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitajeans.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mafevexobaxiridaves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f0n6ng3ga72adivs1g69sge0p/parujogawomobaraxudofiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=high+red+blood+cells+hemoglobin+and+hematocritPDF 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_off0000f0b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0B0 16220 bytes
SHA-256: 272e5f944513a2b2debcb18f2261b5386fdedb0d54f84f210906852110ec606a
font_01_sfnt_off00011aa6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AA6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000132bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132BD 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 8604f80bf3bb516a62c7e68e10066246d154669e94d56556d33eee6da7f12079