Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eee458adc072a920…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-07-07 18:32:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: ca58961b23a4056b3da88aa95ebcf133 SHA-1: b08294dac6b4611d6f97fbed6a793e40bf30777b SHA-256: eee458adc072a920fcb0e8ee414e348a44057c83899f9de2cea0d7163005dd5b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. Heuristics suggest it's a link farm hosted on disposable or compromised domains, designed to redirect users. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b113cf7ea---toxodigokoz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae0cdb99926---muxowasazobefejox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8d9c3de2e5---62785624728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stallingreunion.com/clients/a/a3/a37dbb3dca22f8cb40f44de83fe48269/File/gigafososiponozobegamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdada2090b484dac48b2bf8096a54924/zoridafukaxusojotip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenno-tojestto.pl/userfiles/file/81807360233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc298e5bc06---rexowiwenamidog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb8fd8605ef---jiralexanunim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9db9a278a3ec9ce609bffad6f9a56d4a/15073117186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/529c184420751607504dbfc454618b5d/puwapisobovuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rurksgibj7av3k47a13qt7cptl/mebek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bvsaigonbinhduong.com/uploads/files/90626144904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/balevogupuxefetin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9e20c51267---todow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c91c87d46f8---besakedeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-video.ch/userfiles/files/82355026580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kabelkyaobuv.sk/editor_uploads/files/geradokokegupuneze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/719569a92d06807a81d5db77d14411e8/85508119055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bacc4cbf26c---4615498869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amoy-art.com/Upload/file/3397083073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g60iqrk552jsqpn359h123fsgm/59768910982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hissekurban.com/resimler/files/77012246104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4ad93a3e08---jovulovirireb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bociany.sk/media/file/78659687696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+create+a+submittable+pdf+formPDF 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_off0000f478.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF478 17240 bytes
SHA-256: 7da28aa5211641318cea75d6de13d8dc415037eae593e9f64f5675215b100930
font_01_sfnt_off00012161.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12161 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 3505cf6a91dfb37c6007297067b9a50df7b7979f1a5d3701a471c12101ac8103
font_02_sfnt_off00013abe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13ABE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1