Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eafa2bdbf843f947…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-09-22 13:57:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 67a2cc6f21cdfab47ac95f9786bd8913 SHA-1: a93749a4f46e768f156120fdf3487aeea452b9b8 SHA-256: eafa2bdbf843f9470674292de058a724db53b68c4be2347bccdb3a687ab7fd3f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, with many pointing to disposable or compromised hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple link farms and the use of compromised CMS upload storage suggest a sophisticated effort to obscure the final malicious destination.

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 http://danguykhoidoanhnghiephp.vn/Upload/files/41110939012.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://artdental.hu/editor_up/gumekuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmikkino.ru/sadm_files/43581746558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kitapkaplama.com/upload/ckfinder/files/dafalokavaxapikaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cc59e05fefc5c26d01bcf54a2280c99/22137392811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132514e027ba---38261296138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimomoroni.it/userfiles/files/5823109473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mispuntossaga.com/campannas/file/jowaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livres-d-art.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44743423305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ctnphrae.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48684287194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mothertheresapublicschool.com/userfiles/file/10046390608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dataprint.ie/uploads/file/61307541488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blagoustroystvo24.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jirudatakevijixiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141e2ade7520---99979237032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arvikabc.com/images/uploadedimages/file/91437141883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tgroupsrl.com/userfiles/files/levisemumugavegumepal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasintorn.com/images/upload/files/sopulikine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguyenthaotech.com/upload/files/88578150815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupafurman.pl/!mag2011/userfiles/file/xovulixenexegevezugud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciarajewellery.com/editor_upload/file/90654499073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614af107f317c---27561430534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/38871675712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161411fa698818---nazamubigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebal.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/sudosol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141c0a580ea7---92941945335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=1996+ramadan+calendar+indiaPDF 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_off0000bc49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC49 20468 bytes
SHA-256: 527f936f7fdc687278f679f1d04e16173a5d106822919f135217a39da90a41d0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1A3 10436 bytes
SHA-256: 36b592a840c2eefae2aa99c6a57f1a99c87e4c82fcd7d19d9ec86f3c622b4b00
font_02_sfnt_off0001092c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1092C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1