Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ea805bd02b66882…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 11:27:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 4372b5233e51bcbb7b064e655f0b7e54 SHA-1: 0e650a2ddfe2c31b1d49110a9c1e080b300d665b SHA-256: 0ea805bd02b66882276f9804080eb83fffb39f23385046d5a5b2cadbbb83b348
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress installations and other disposable hosting. These links likely lead to phishing pages or serve as a distribution point for further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=smiles+3+activity+book+pdf+%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C+%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%BE PDF link annotation
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a53c3661a7c---tagusupaxekiwumolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7h0d8qs6cp18ncegnhnl3fff8e/xorimefajutodorawojube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gieskestukadoors.nl/ckfinder/files/files/zemiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrn.cz/pic/file/38992701820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerd-pollak.de/userfiles/file/94354892908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160928b295dd38---fegotalekegesaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160878ee825097---ratoxopaxufekejegejefemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.net/userfiles/file/7395132594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071bb50751ab---koriturebupareninizewozil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skl.deindrukdemo.nl/upload/files/23870723330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evola.it/userfiles/files/1732578389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a97d7315d01---75457162908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607375f504bd1---pojuloveniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myvideoclasses.com/ci/userfiles/files/butirelalisimavuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/zapumaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d08d56a6da4---12829575502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.extramas.com/userfiles/files/31801439188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radmangroup-ye.com/rgfiles/file/24071504556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843a705c771---4676810051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd9eede5c460037b36519c812c525a02/95341596187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f05684a2f9---30390238423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.com/slicice/file/noxeximiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b77b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB77B 21104 bytes
SHA-256: fd825b608a09a4f219e4759945acb5665e472240450dc01c34b43937ba362218
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBC1 12580 bytes
SHA-256: eff4d6928fddf7e3b9de29e9e27a8f4473b55a75e32ca757eb9e5ee92f7b332e
font_02_sfnt_off00010899.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10899 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1