Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eab8a03bdf8777ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-08-20 19:13:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 8a3c3a0e1d5ea4e4a86e88451647379f SHA-1: 0d4170634a90946d63dbb5ca9289968333ad21c7 SHA-256: eab8a03bdf8777eac4ecc11f2793e836b22a7d33126994b4d926a183b592d8fc
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains embedded JavaScript and multiple URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://namratalakhotia.com/userfiles/files/bosaladus.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://steklo-shik.ru/userfiles/file/zuritexetidanebok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a17c8de81444c979f25f96c71e62fc11/93831811190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084ad9ecbbdd---98136785099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d52ebc02c8b---sigimikibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1a51cfdd5---25974563238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5f4072d6a4---dotijedokexudidij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a27fbc067f8---32391369724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b989e37aa39---67652352368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toptehnik.si/images/60952170019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111fc84f1826---7215886842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konferencii.ru/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71070318553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annjulieskarpmo.com/userfiles/file/56649846549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160821e644e429---99165296510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/dijiwowoxapapug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinistudy.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/vexaxogesiwuvuzukefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/8934721083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/1139751034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtcnx.com/upload/fckimagesfile/80655621374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/906cd2510c57edcaa164d218a906906c/56025452133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c97d8121a0d---28794093236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca6f2f2b25084731a42c452c1200d613/digesejiletibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bdn10.cz/files/file/63031686529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c9dfaf16e60bd04b4c32c9e273486c0/jorozoxopaxixaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pngroup.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mubalan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=new+headway+pre+intermediate+student%27s+book+third+edition+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000cf21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF21 11304 bytes
SHA-256: d0db90748d115f86b3f2d99c1b4d537c65ca076e1c62dd411b5dbb328fb58ab1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e95f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE95F 16616 bytes
SHA-256: 39b61aeeb09177e6999754a62cb03db411628e4ccccfbd8d96c976e8d60d700b
font_02_sfnt_off000114c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1