Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eae8120a807c164f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 14:10:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 033c4b7353a1409190e926037f11a3d5 SHA-1: a13a44cf27544711d351c633aed4199ac89cde01 SHA-256: eae8120a807c164f4bf8663b8ccfa456b1361387985de4302e13a5857447d244
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malware delivery or phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff40445061d163fd52340da539830fbd/maxekaberujixirizogogoluv.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g39qta7gr8mj9o0mpsajt0mi86/55283030886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thrifty-uy.com/files/others/pisegekusuxupuzevolal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eortak.com/img/fck_temp/file/gevutilabulevuwuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nexxosrealty.com/userfiles/files/40087907453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a005b190002---9564969443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/78140981459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087cbc482dd0---49992976993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mygotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210527_9BFA9955F9679511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.teeintact.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/img/file/9411295610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4ad510a19f---32198953779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://27derajat.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/25463393143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matras-matrasych96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/soteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intrigantka.ru/images/userfiles/file/museg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ovel1cscl4hh1f5j6fumt00de/81079251518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiberglasssupplydepot.com/userfiles/file/78168855909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095dfa8ea7ac---mazibozofunegaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079c9e3dfc6c---fuwudoburelakonulibak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://growlink.biz/userfiles/file/naxumegatulomepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f13d2c1cb3a7c6d7b5f74151d5c7407c/9540836392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/165e8be76aa4a14fe88dbd039ed1c831/sefagivokapezasaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/ramoxonojozapafexinanoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://farmstead.tw/farmstead/upload/files/rawimebamugopuxabunamax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jv1jg93uarhmn9selu5nq0d421/manife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=inventive+thinking+through+triz+a+practical+guide+pdfPDF 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_off0000dbbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBBD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3D4 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 788856e73b13da04dd3b710a3c4d53bb7e83ae28797adf50fd69ebc650665372
font_02_sfnt_off00010d24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D24 17520 bytes
SHA-256: 7e732d82b1ef17cd63e202f98a2ae4092995805278e7df94682634c6af0143b5