Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eae8a3fc1e9acd29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 01:49:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 3e3b94177003a4b995f05f3fcf6d8d0c SHA-1: 9d07bbdd6fde167fdf237ca3411d65a0c3b40744 SHA-256: eae8a3fc1e9acd29665797b4ecd2743feeeb48b0374ff8c1e13b0df1b38d13aa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the primary attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3df6692afee1dd2484613c6566cc5c76/37056513940.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mk-sito.it/uploads/file/49678552329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ht9js82cj9mkijhcgtj1qd7r4/24396763926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.net/images/upload/File/redil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staples1981.com/clients/b/ba/ba027a536d51c1d997ee76cae6dc9017/File/kigefaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16125b6f433328---52949037036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intergeored.com/upload/File/sijarifoterafozerixaxade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adams-gold.ru/archive/image/file/vuvivem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6021d89741---42944350947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carparts-fixture.com/file/file/1229800552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibeguiristain.com/userfiles/files/xipetebiwaluxile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aps-mes.com/files/file/laruxemopelutodame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/23067134741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608750d83f8f4---notogofib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engroupe.ca/aym_image/files/ferotagubumuwavusoladuzan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poolpoint.be/uploads/file/pawufirilewetolusef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macabrey-luthier.fr/data/Files/zezumebemom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tiande-global.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74202483502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dce12419c4dc6b97977cfaa1a1751b5e/kixaratetabamabetewale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tortugafilms.ca/adminfiles/file/vivubugubog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnwebdesign.dk/userfiles/file/weberelirawomifoxubukedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612461a1205c9---59761371186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingalbertltd.com/uploadedfiles/file/6433745516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e0e3a4099e8be6b30030c01abcbedee/66235885777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b302915b46031ec08db7333ff776fc43/gulawufimisenifaxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=dirty+blonde+hair+to+blondePDF 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_off0000d69a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD69A 10432 bytes
SHA-256: 26d8842fc5cf489f1efe6cfc3dae6cba69ae4594d9059c02711b08223c9d80cc
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE20 18784 bytes
SHA-256: f7e5681f20da27ccd54e099e2a5a3c7360249c43ec6dad18a5ed94492bfe2f60
font_02_sfnt_off00011e5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E5B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1