Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eda3766ce33c2b18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 22:47:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 98b0122ed724b33eaa8db7a39ab01c5d SHA-1: 7bdc3d456543467e58724b16f98317f583045d62 SHA-256: eda3766ce33c2b1865abf179fc3b7036ebe2bedf3247e9702df7926c8a8e843e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and link farm heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8298af1174939093128f37bd38438788/xawonum.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.nl/userfiles/file/noguvibifarolor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a84d84d3d65---5087913952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fcd634e6e71---3038823335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3ea1d336b9fa57f7721304323b58a00/xiwada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf4a3bf020---58865399389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsck-cykelmotion.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mubevumudazinezip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://francescofesta.it/userfiles/files/4814858357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b472287aa57---zonaxikepaxejibinuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lfv4fld1b37ibkue6ddcke80n6/17181701414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-yoga.org/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210523210321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mvpartners.be/images/uploadedimages/file/46564374216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wasserentkalkung.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16184313894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fonixkoncert.hu/upload/file/38144955186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acryl-bg.com/userfiles/file/63074476501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160961f135aafc---81672514358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b95dbc5ee7bbc10a3c719feb21a24853/bemowidunewewiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d361e4bd05---40914602229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/spolp6fn3v8ntois91nfbefo50/49155672913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasici-pristroje-eshop.cz/files/file/belulutusujenepoxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bygreenpure.com/userfiles/file/92071011943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63f8632c0cc3103176338dbcddc9aab1/fejobilepape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=income+statement+and+balance+sheet+exercises+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_off0000e2b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2B1 11080 bytes
SHA-256: 063abc737d614c605a4f0ca25184ae78fd7483ac899dff170b652c2de353efea
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC11 17832 bytes
SHA-256: 99cbf2504699f190f20d542d0af99a803daed2b7da582b9ee6d3e080afe43a65
font_02_sfnt_off00012a5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A5D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1