Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eae67a4aa421ce31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-06-11 06:18:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 59ab5318d7452a98907036c8cc735915 SHA-1: f62593db9b0d457753bd93339b4acf0d27385741 SHA-256: eae67a4aa421ce3100003bb922d5ec23b0144276288cd1f4e73c9d0a47a89108
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and the overall heuristic profile points to a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bullish+and+bearish+chart+patterns+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8590a2b8af35d2c0f56e84f94f2de394/79628558633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0cc3887597---vomotajavuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32086b502cbf82491508b8be27051ab6/69555589768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90ac3b70e5b778c5ea7d73cb49465335/nefoxojerutixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076a674a6341---49805943265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608caeae9da0a---saxotisujajevasoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d6c6e3749f---23483468731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovacsoltvaskerites.hu/images/file/88321625830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b30e787a923---gimifadomenefonatesekudix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cihangirhotel.com/upload/ckfinder/files/6451894245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanmusicfestival.com/userfiles/file/gupiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bnovum.hu/downloads/lorubupowize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/538153d5a59ffa75e94131e36dbe2784/zuvuzufesakivopumoredowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822c4b93568---30539261829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c411d4b444de224df570ccb8490f2ba7/vafusedutikulifebeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxidmum.com/images/upload/fck/file/67901584594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klimagra.pl/images/wysiwyg_img/file/22979576155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160750c00a3eef---pozuwefasiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010a99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A99 5432 bytes
SHA-256: ff3ae28426379799c98ea79111ef86e0248cb038c32b331f4556bdf531d3d03a
font_01_sfnt_off00011d05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D05 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 71845999e58bded994a12bd6aaba49cefbfd2d23bc199975187fdd501353f093