Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eace938663e04853…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.0 KB Created: 2021-07-13 20:54:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2f09ed49aeb41d1a35cb3cffddbc136e SHA-1: b4c15acc54e76e900558c0f994d782aadac62142 SHA-256: eace938663e0485338d845cfff374f453acf722ad652f1fd73d4b7bad54db2c5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or lead to phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be8e5e924a0---83166957475.pdf
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d36a5070418ba1ecfb78dbc77d49926/18854539796.pdf
    • http://aapltd.net/userfiles/file/88166951162.pdf
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160854109479f3---88270780762.pdf
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/onnfjefoqanfmuarsuhmgq38oo/11551242296.pdf
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e9aa7c9e0---xojas.pdf
    • http://happysmilecard.com/uploads/files/92902883176.pdf
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58f4704ee7b63d77635b8080b84a8729/powanojajibatumaleg.pdf
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/pejatuvojajekepuvegokej.pdf
    • http://wefocusdesign.com/upload/files/92433507713.pdf
    • https://uniontend.com/userfiles/files/nerikabudemavademek.pdf
    • http://anatolianlgs.com/userfiles/file/39239525958.pdf
    • http://www.lugashotel.com/data/editorfile/81065344130.pdf
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cba1457be83705db5bccb76c2a3dfc1/1653867561.pdf
    • http://pauseforserenity.com/clients/1/10/1002a5d8b3740fc7390aa1937d1ec3ed/File/ridapavepa.pdf
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/nuzojabikuwosenodu.pdf
    • http://chicohigh1987.com/clients/47015/File/35668717973.pdf
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k9646uim3efqdpkr5v29ior53b/65128458700.pdf
    • http://automozg.by/upload/editor/files/8724796843.pdf
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a349b38c985---41282010678.pdf
    • https://iqmuseum.mn/uploads/files/96967573478.pdf
    • https://flyags.com/editorResources/file///11366193567.pdf
    • http://studiogiovannone.com/userfiles/files/66983310102.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=ear+pit+infection+home+remedy
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001130b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1130B 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012b22.bin
716dbd29dd3406b582ff93421106da5d26125613e148c63028c88c3afe41d2d9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B22 10768 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000143b7.bin
5e2ce9e35d555c959bc94f1ac803f5f6fdc8708b655a33f8d1549f6248db7646
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143B7 16600 bytes