Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eeb20f733780aa97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.5 KB Created: 2021-07-15 12:41:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 7db4a885a3d9ffe981f8e63a54afa5fc SHA-1: 8b512c08f98f3c39ca9abbb3e11fd5ff8dd0c4aa SHA-256: eeb20f733780aa97a768d71ca4e090a5d68d5a69f9586caaaafb83d9a411d877
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many distinct hosts and URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload storage. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it's not intended for human consumption but rather to host malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://mimpishio2bet.com/contents//files/tapigotalatokizaberamomub.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/050ea2d4d3d992a55eb18441f5ff18a9/xademilafoxin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3ac911590e655404c4cf495675c0a9f/rodojivej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7f3f76de6e---direkuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eobliecky.sk/userfiles/file/17962381726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bbc61a11a4---12226011321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7379db2417f6253b489056abf1d108a9/12959953693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57t6bddl8lu15lk363quphdc5u/19986222566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c88af62f1c---dejoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://954move.com/clients/4890/File/dovulujapovobubapelemik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://regmac.net/userfiles/files/mufat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kelvista.lt/images/files/69428436454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5115b6dc7d327f52159cb942cfc6934/tadufovumivurux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbbadccd1a8---tasop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phanphoiongnhuahoasen.vn/upload/files/26241623939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/tutasovolet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/but99c3bs3lt3oc1raf93u0co5/14077466056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a07d6m5s21aqimhfe4vfltd3hr/32586005631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cba244a7556---12439981108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abe43e3e963---gubasopajib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/032f8471e50dd57f80b2372d89d3f27c/fafegefagusejasosan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1848e7f0a4ceed94b59d7cf85889679e/fiwomap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/bijilobikip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fereshtegan.net/basefile/fereshtegannet/files/62117999332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c97453056de---bomisakod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tqab2lefao0tpfv65f84ro6c11/nosix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=cooley+high+movie+freePDF 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_off00010849.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10849 10340 bytes
SHA-256: 89cc1b959ecb4876a6038d80b56499bf87d215a3a5ab1eb760a34641517f7ed6
font_01_sfnt_off00011f9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F9E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000137b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137B0 16604 bytes
SHA-256: 110f75d111411f1f9591c1e925cca05c5f17de7fb02a3fc4a11cb85d318521b3