Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eca69a40415793ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-07-24 19:20:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: da90a9bc04154827c2bddabc063a3497 SHA-1: 1ef33dec63ba3e75fbaded746784d6b1d467e080 SHA-256: eca69a40415793ec4aa597928b4ee5dee3fdcb8888f9550774a0bf2aa965af21
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, indicating an attempt to hide its true purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

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.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607517c413e97---87413042797.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d584bd4a691---jorilusaropobotomefan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7d30f672d06d11e1e9ee13ccae13d92/xanos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/407d777e7f4b0fcf4ef8c21abb8fb5df/gadedidumenopivikimiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/73322652196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba246d04ebd---19750196953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9536c06fbb1c9cd51b6119513606717c/25186056177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondamienbac.vn/userfiles/file/32693393463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f7d0ce1b0d---62159560366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e499aedd8b---jowosuxadefewaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.naturartshop.com//ckfinder/userfiles/files/jaxaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atamergranit.com/userfiles/file/fibugomifogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationforexcellence.com/clients/66491/File/78288054767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohappy.org/userData/board/file/39080533886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c3a2a3836d---14835941711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd4259d1e28---rejiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3f0838613d---41883276126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gmk3nnp8n9a9dj2jn0r503qols/31904675181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/181a9ae337a6d67cce603e91e1c82c15/rizidedediwadedexenur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/77910671417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merklink.nl/site/data/ws/files/54226365327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097d656b9c12---16984019176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2adc91985fcef95aec89ca71c26a8c14/zereteveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2efff87476---wafivitakuwejoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/28293023561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f068ffbe7721abd8b6074a65a8170b1e/31092930853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=nervous+system+divisions+worksheetPDF 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_off0000c94b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC94B 16452 bytes
SHA-256: cc23aba382e90312d9e529e009722ae140ecd3c455ca91972cd6cd706bc22ada
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3B9 10740 bytes
SHA-256: baa347211a199b8b991f7e7b22aa8606080f1168f89702331119a4acc70da2de
font_02_sfnt_off00010c5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C5C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1