Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eabcf00e2502af69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.8 KB Created: 2021-07-02 11:20:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 8586f6d3dc2fde2447a13098b80337d2 SHA-1: f27e776965332da812b3ea77293c2afdcf9b26b3 SHA-256: eabcf00e2502af69c20890323723fc9313aa0c0fcfe169b57c60faca2ab44b46
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 high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's designed to trick users into downloading further malware. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9930

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.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3gc8ol43blesag9et9h44v778i/22340458820.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariailmarzocco.it/userfiles/files/buzufezazoxilifot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leinerpakgelatine.com/survey/userfiles/files/wetonuwidazipekevugajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ee0fc4426f4d9060b41ff22887aac49/lezapevinuwanokobis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russkiivopros.com/images/FCKeditor/file/wilemupakogajufipuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd68c4c893e---69787778037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609072a8397f4---89592587007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a7b438fecc5595437851a0a5bd8ae74/85679067635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://najlepsze-w-polsce.pl/uploads/tuvefezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ec72c61f96---52655286613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://connect-senior.ch/uploades/userfiles/file/59245952485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ff48c7e728---97160042083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b1ca0a7086fdf397c3097d3de3d0081/leginejavifebijij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/750d97d5d84fa29d362f4b1430fea562/livaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160883249cf256---12046403402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/vedopibemilamuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b7f1c9c34---5536901320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3b54683fa---puwaluvamedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e024ba3d3ec36c12300c8c8ef7e392a2/5053251747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f371a30fd2---sulobuzezopazatewoneworo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.nl/userfiles/file/zetuzegewiluxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=ron+and+hermione+fanfictionPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011de5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DE5 10572 bytes
SHA-256: e53a8cd4b51964d6d6c0820efa09913f92115a02821d7ef9e715882b88e914b6
font_01_sfnt_off000135cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135CB 17712 bytes
SHA-256: f341f7328e3480803701627ddbd3252bc79212928c004a15fe9b1680c5647047
font_02_sfnt_off00016443.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16443 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00017c54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17C54 16164 bytes
SHA-256: fd494554c7a7a2c4488382a78096c535ff133766c7221992be4f6a58596b2467