Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eacc4d6b9a8ca027…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.8 KB Created: 2021-07-14 00:13:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 86b7d8e1a310594d26b185aa21e93b35 SHA-1: 466e2ac69c08c018a8306df12e90665443af4300 SHA-256: eacc4d6b9a8ca027dc499f6ee3281f2f4eea2ba7eb715faeb3fabeaa8a72970f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, a common tactic for distributing malware or phishing content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document's structure and embedded URLs suggest it's designed to lure users into clicking through to potentially harmful sites, likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a26053b3779bf6305f39fd3f41197eb1/rogifunipejodoki.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k20od6i38g6ikoi23hqk8u8br1/mubago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krakow4you.pl/krakow/files/557356369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mawaevents.com/uploads/file/lojugagewagikebuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fade6afb79f08c3b1e1c218e6e11021/66051894753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608011c5dbf59---54986511615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellamaris.cz/userfiles/tosawuxudubivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sivam.pl/files/file/riwojelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086bec332a36---wepelipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/dojenaberenujivutep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608011f794c31---38042417845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076a2c1a0655---lobuvesumelikute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba63b929523---64032007234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f01c9cedc8043d5ba005b237d8c4dc8c/gasesur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecresconsolidamentorestauro.it/fck_data/file/sezaxikazud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608726e8503dc---binuvefijimuvotabopepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ji0db3knmj9clqhtgtd1r9975u/30633698692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160812a7755c2b---kezikamakajezenode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53700nh7kn8954r2q88o5oiem9/41542236751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yingzhaoliuart.com/upload/file/takuwonikedoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backkwang.com/userData/board/file/madonovajabivides.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=tannase+enzyme+productionPDF 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_off0001022e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1022E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011a40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A40 17748 bytes
SHA-256: baab6f17453ac12d1f8d2546c7936ee6a727f974d22aa122439c0f9d04694f99
font_02_sfnt_off0001491d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1491D 10868 bytes
SHA-256: fdb57b0a9b84daa64fc197982ffc820a7a8801354caa0fe995ff503e0d217a08