Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eaf5b385c92defe3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-06-30 09:38:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 1151b72c655be62a1498b80230eb785e SHA-1: 420347f6f30462cec576623070a13b696f3aed61 SHA-256: eaf5b385c92defe3f1d659a5ce9f9e25927f8e2b3b5ee5cf824c042c8cbbe884
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised CMS upload directories on multiple domains. The PDF document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to contain embedded JavaScript, likely used to facilitate redirection or further malicious actions.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160723c975c50f---26106920441.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/830b1viu6cdd2pkcahk6jifm62/12299240078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799b45720ba---burifiraje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c3c0f21894bd647c423f97829e81bdc/78376347602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdds.be/userfiles/file/nanemepezivuletasadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.com/upload/editor/file/borakenubaguba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/378890e10f131f1b9e97481a9c308925/78406992109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tekkoo.net/images/library/File/19103918320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuwangnam.com/user_file/file/zixofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e05b3b860f---kosasisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0862dd1fafce138b8bdfdb9c3f2a923e/dexivuvimos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/43615771087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b25bc089a12---paxamilazijupebokob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160865ec2d6c48---16681663880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaykpn.com/uploads/editor/files/99867252651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5f9cae596d---pekatenobabipukad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisetourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210618_D32F17A883352417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekonopuntos.com/campannas/file/nulinavedotaxawidatakak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fogln803jisdkvgigcm4r8rj8m/98268974538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m189jujm4hgkr82p5ttim91cfl/waraxemivupaxizep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160888a954f808---50468522351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpszone.hu/upload/userfiles/file/kawababoturuteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donateagift.eu/userfiles/file/18949786938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=3d+chess+board+onlinePDF 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_off000102a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102A1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011ab3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AB3 16984 bytes
SHA-256: 7a56745eb2be4d5502cb7aef01d8b5fd0f331b426eb73b6c85e30917be4ad197
font_02_sfnt_off00014719.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14719 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 8d94323e7ad82e490a5c9e347c446302a1abd2e04fac65b8fcc568d0efdbd9e0