Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eea344362066fe75…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 08:59:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5ec25078225ab453b6107c26cf23c35b SHA-1: 44edf93e85eeb057f0979b73a60c7e25e76433a5 SHA-256: eea344362066fe75a3214894dd9b365745696ac96eae9517e75eafc86e927234
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript and numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or trojan payload. The presence of embedded JavaScript, though not fully analyzed due to obfuscation, likely contributes to the malicious functionality.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kf79k78n4obo4jveosc5kak0d4/36221768499.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/xutani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pjkconstruction.ca/images/file/janoraxumajibabitumafumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kyanite.tv/userfiles/file/3980760877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariorigolon.eu/userfiles/files/radudiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074838497a24---8361725932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d370c25387092ce4ab5b9ebe05ee09f/tiguwosekefogowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primaneighbors.com/userimages/54747907804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://55pluscommunityspecialist.com/userfiles/files/lafimuluxosojuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7onseventh.org/clients/868256/File/jipewazubagemugutuwiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dimensioninteractive.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/3312379286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snpwachq.com/files/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/papibajogamoxajewezosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crownprolaw.cn/userfiles/Proj_Name/files/japixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mgmdsaq1ch8dk9lhek0hpdnqcc/wafunonebumegelifadibemex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/besatefebawulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dcbestwings.com/uploads/files/11551735489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/kevalokivolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yogo110.com/userfiles/file/6419794480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160849858e05b3---37470129936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunglamgarden.com/images/fck/file/nigujov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db4d7bbd9b0---bapilomav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yodishit.com/uploads/userfiles/file/87039198318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www2.grupoksl.com.br/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jivexijopevikaviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=thesis+rationale+sample+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_off0000d2ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2BA 17836 bytes
SHA-256: abaf378f8eda56871c60907bc3aaa0d96b9113a94d42cafa50cba6a9ddede502
font_01_sfnt_off000100f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011907.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11907 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 8c482955eab3df484cf3c324e63c87ab52f242c93258581180be0cc8c6175df8