Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eaf22a839e1093f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.6 KB Created: 2021-07-20 06:21:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 92e579defc9d3d042319150bb46719a3 SHA-1: d1ca2854de7b468c4c7ddf508682791d58904e51 SHA-256: eaf22a839e1093f83b803ec7c54340e5be09f927fee059a8ecbf575f0c6d4f17
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate maliciousness, likely related to phishing or trojan delivery. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it's not intended for direct user interaction but rather to host malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ob7p17cm84ucafgdrla4da2c32/gabisifupog.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e975506f9cc---nexafelize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auto-ecole-rive-droite.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rageliroxilifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b138af2f5---wowetejolina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc5615482a---wuribubiligasuxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ftiv8eoturgedt3g61v0fb49b5/migaxewirata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/tijapebunokozijabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76aba6f34293a9ed5c43b34e78f4362a/xejujub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f116a5dc17---50357193568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musikpark-live.de/userfiles/file/jorexowawuvadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb9ae630cf0be0a8d454cadfb4ac014b/ragetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cf90721ed1---4000733842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609020906b6ef---96235577553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/fezufagerigosuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/54361737143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2931489ef7eba4a1c4365979e6a71e63/vusabigikoriluwimevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b82fdc6eccd---fijoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jkmart.net/FCKFiles/File/70298999962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c17d5306da6---1376697376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73gsd0d4i7kpva30lu7n8blhjh/wazejaxudavunadub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d6ce15936---dotabobamotiludukimusevor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turatabor.hu/media/mosamawilop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=linear+array+representation+in+memoryPDF 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_off00011aba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ABA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000132d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132D1 10440 bytes
SHA-256: 5a076e007764cb97fd54df0aa2b93fc641d70ba5a9bf586ca1d43710d688ce1d
font_02_sfnt_off00014a7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A7E 17812 bytes
SHA-256: 1a423237779a12e607a0c0e5f44d16304c971c564b1f5ae9d07a37c9970db9bc