Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eeaba6fbf336a026…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.7 KB Created: 2021-07-05 07:06:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 73030cf696b1452918268eea7e06d18e SHA-1: 7046dcb75cdd4ad2943a56c3faffabd0244511e9 SHA-256: eeaba6fbf336a026e7a90ee7cb324a6c544f5d752d367f15700e0ebdd1514fee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a common malicious PDF distribution method.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bbdcc8a1d0e1a0207f80f7681067ebe/keribikona.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kpdb.org/userfiles/files/11099667825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ilomia29i2bqu9qdnfekn5jmgp/59331427782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4b08565702---48711646432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ht4s1taj6f22lfsm8t95csiu7n/kozowitebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aa212cb050---memafemexid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eium18tp4k0hvssp74nttid4j1/67582827832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4e86b8a80---zalemavoronij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084226148cde---59580658451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b309e4ceb9c0695f3dbed58c85dc317/83791683024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/digalizoboxufadezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160816268e7326---83780514473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b89d058ec0c---mapabugizofujomube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4fdb092afac46dabf0ef28d5fa35cd2/nekevetudujum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a101e4d5ac---xofarixibesegav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngor2-3.com/file_media/file_image/file/10556161099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rttn89u6bh610rn5371shso82o/11856405519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0900107678.com/upload/file/67023222606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coreaad.com/DreamDataUpload/file/63136431467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilni-kadernictvi.cz/files/file/dunukedexerixevudeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2833f3f67fe5714c1158f756aed065d/81513719825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=12+week+baby+miscarriagePDF 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_off000121a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121A0 10712 bytes
SHA-256: ef6ff5176f477f752d1b538c00d8397ade5c16bcf3d1ebb0583aeabb2f020bef
font_01_sfnt_off00013a6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A6D 16784 bytes
SHA-256: 9aa93923b28084ee46063dc3dd1c16580324dbf57d396aec16b8a5f6e395d48f
font_02_sfnt_off000165ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x165AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1