Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4eefaca5cb8bed4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.3 KB Created: 2021-08-25 12:48:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 2aa6f977bbfd822a94db1939437a6cf1 SHA-1: f14edba1c0ddfe066b515ccb2c6c86c953fae454 SHA-256: f4eefaca5cb8bed456518c7d00a82688f85138ccf73506f3124a0404bd6ff280
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815fac4cd45---22710966768.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608329410276e---96398779328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/15900251502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highrise.pl/file/lazor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ec3b3714cbc78598288fc20866713d1/63356459217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alumcity.ru/userfiles/file/69444264164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b036ce7268c---bapifur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kogan-photo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ac35a4b853c6458cb2efadae1cde9b8/37458258545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anoh.net/pds/userfiles/files/gegatigaxabaxezakuroko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/xanox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f66447b7d5fbad09133bbd99ad388df/92422316038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aibasylhet.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zudidud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c66db17bedcffa8c944e5a40ce3b2d8/luzoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ruvmv6tr790mjhhab5oo1c2upd/bisanalowamekezixifigog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tierrettung-in-katalonien.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84284313151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5607e16e55---57012660786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tyros-club.de/userfiles/file/zugowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210731091103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16118694fd0557---92611370473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenplanetnepal.com/userfiles/file/gipikuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e744c4fc8e---42233038381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08a68c739bbb5e4b2ba4d68354f1021b/sosafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cjsc.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tetisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a891b00faf7548f85e687a2a3650dba2/56304967781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funbugs.ie/userfiles/file/kedumubejodufuvowuzusajex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=the+solution+of+the+quadratic+equation+are+calledPDF 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_off0001185e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1185E 18384 bytes
SHA-256: 9a3ddbf616bf11524c42a08520f3a0ba1ecf9021680ac5b90d097cd6f97d2dd0
font_01_sfnt_off000149a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149A7 10784 bytes
SHA-256: e44fcd8d33dc552eabcd5389b332e33cad05a1be24145d6814ba7c3b59dde327
font_02_sfnt_off0001623d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1623D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1