Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eaf2705b2cac1004…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 16:43:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 9064639c84cdbf2863b5479275cbe694 SHA-1: 9fc0dbe41fc12bc1f7992cca6fe176c04c929497 SHA-256: eaf2705b2cac100485d22f2e93bc4e05fa607307e02163a44dbaff4fe8d9ac2e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous PDF files hosted on compromised websites and disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple external URIs and the nature of the hosting indicate a likely phishing or malware distribution campaign.

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://muahohangnhat.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/fivekatosozavebegi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tsg-vaganovskoe.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57685570861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a3c23c613e5f7b144fba11e067ba152/31157858047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afdb248921d---35572683061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sam-global.ch/files/file/jozaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160f2813e986ad---52242871089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37edbe067cd624137a915e5770536186/74897895237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mweb.cz/images/file/xokixukivumazurukifapite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hydratrend.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dotarifora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightskiothon.ca/clients/4/44/44db284a3a4a6a3f34f8f2fa71918f98/File/revalejikawawofodojaxose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd99b67276f---fokowebofitekenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stillwaiting.org/userfiles/file/zafazogox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611fdf039c83d---14420662039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/negulus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/739f07785234f414dc50804b4ad2773a/70584581455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolaodong.com/userfiles/file/73142143914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://service-panev.com/userfiles/dewuzewevuravixonud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delta-serwis.pl/pliki/masinalopazivawujawivelum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2f85785da5---684944944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colours-of.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ernimr0tda5u6aj81m7heh7qp/36969483944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/so82cn94e2rtugqnqph2i0vupo/66049428398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandiassociati.it/userfiles/file/zijiwojikeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53c880eab97da47ecccffce7a341c6c5/18842246391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rgn2u.com/userfiles/files/19018766067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=compress+pdf+up+to+500kbPDF 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_off0000e49e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE49E 17392 bytes
SHA-256: 0fd5aefa570352bf50ca3168a743e80d74443697126b1fa9b00d829ba12579fc
font_01_sfnt_off000111a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111A2 10872 bytes
SHA-256: d04a778b45b6a05c939c4b82877f0e5b3cb53696e89582d4cdbaa614018dfaaa
font_02_sfnt_off00012aa8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AA8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1