Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eeba39bf6fe82dab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-09-08 08:12:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 081295f7244dc2a8da197a78a7b2201c SHA-1: e323078292fb3fe8a32266ebd5b560d3d9af5b21 SHA-256: eeba39bf6fe82dab9faa868009432aef8553b2c7a423f1ebe6c379536a0763e0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and ML classification further support its malicious nature. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through a document that ultimately leads them to external, potentially malicious, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e331ad9a83a---notoxabopilokigosigawavos.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://leoclubmarsala.it/userfiles/files/zijovulutogetuxifenawiwid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sluganarodu.org/userfiles/files/lobodew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092102cc083e---79332374841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiskreunion.com/clients/b/b4/b417c2091670ce0b0d78f4b231aea02c/File/bugezizijurawofaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f598a6a5d17---81441991807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9a76523dff---fefonopila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0960a471adcc04b1a48c72cf022eb23c/kakugefimawurepog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/330b9b9b77de6de89298b75fa625139e/72824964462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcbebb22c46954da1a1c4f836d29e225/2250399943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volnynaklad.cz/data/file/fenesevanifoxamoruzade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.org/data/filestorage/upload/files/dafubijogopuvidebalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wannawwannie.pl/userfiles/file/fewutetopenalogoviji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bbb130e7fa58e5136ffdb35e833f989/31391202506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dilimkebab.com/userfiles/file/peloridumiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://td-mg.ru/uploads/files/77452627362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvumayphoto.vn/webroot/img/files/mitebotogepido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11a3c3b7caa18abc49ec0879b539a6fb/62410683782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ee694c097cb8a362964ff294a837abb/52929194126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d63784f775---gegalogukanaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mediedil.eu/userfiles/files/noribivedafixopifata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/4032914360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=attestation+de+vente+chiot+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_off0000e85a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE85A 20392 bytes
SHA-256: 6f5e3325d5d2a6fe4aea0a21f426a4d1cd1ccc8773fbb351518b4d416374930c
font_01_sfnt_off00011cb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CB0 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 5c167a79653c87880c31aa0813f8f941afd29c0933a8062ffe718eb9d784bec5
font_02_sfnt_off000134fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134FD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1