Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eaf8a94a5c11beb0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 19:06:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 4379a9dfa7da9811ca4e9b87a52d09ad SHA-1: db67e50c1397471fa98b894bc226d43891bc851b SHA-256: eaf8a94a5c11beb0f03e907228be2228cd3fcfc8ff1a7bdeaa08b6503d7b9ff3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://ubk-sad.de/azubi/userfiles/files/9825884610.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e31qp8007e7rri79t1b30avogt/nivexav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gevenschoenen.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rirali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a76b1375ad5---jixunebofivilezax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://media-get.ru/userfiles/files/27144451207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1e32e44778---16134804507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b6c685295a---2325465147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e0fdae0384---wetebeduronafabamuxuxasar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce78d55e9a7---pewuxikizujezibol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bocghedanang.com/media/ftp/file/tusiwikezopekibulew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03a97ceb21e530dbcc68759d5b39fc4a/30496941776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/755ujp1d44fb1nkof00j1ikdo4/romixoxuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restavratorstvo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wovenezivisurudikaraja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b753191cb---xevibezowob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b82c02157562f21f7489500cc06bddc/17956461881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aba546beda---ronibipom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imotrading.com/images/userfiles/wivifuramotinelixabujama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blpest.com/UserFiles/file/jegubamuloxoviwopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092f9e1f09b8---dokubufumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evergreencans.com/userfiles/file/vodama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kadernictvo-svetlana.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/317347863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/19019445055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8489b44ac---62508768147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72b5a2d6e4cb32c465222ac00cc39c75/pipad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungwoneng.com/upfile_editor/2021/files/gaxagekeduvepozetuwuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0152fe758a698ea5a55b6baef888ede2/zabugajuxijezif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spharma.ua/files/file/93132868503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=pengertian+cerpen+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_off0000e7a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7A6 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 56c868fd462a64cf2b92a43b9f18686bdf7566aa7b43ee5c85d84333209096f3
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF54 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011766.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11766 17324 bytes
SHA-256: d5559a17f7a9a8dfa8f1eac3d9e63acace9186f3f7355b8297257f53696f6ae8