Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0eaa22a118d3fea6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.4 KB Created: 2021-07-16 17:03:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 60418aba8526efc0d02c676dbf4862f4 SHA-1: fc1cadb6c3a036807da83629613b84692a85376d SHA-256: 0eaa22a118d3fea639791c8521886969e4ba93fe94382de90d299c4186042a7b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to external resources, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic suggests a lure to entice users to click on these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://laiyi-art.com/userfiles/file/24502435719.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://triangle-electronics.com/assets/userfiles/file/71345392127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubles301.jp/files/ckeditor/files/69942478489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qca.ch/userfiles/file/40999887534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://space1500.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d80433be788ae8888fa3c8a5beb4e5ea/puwutujubanokokemuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/guvopiwope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69fb7c1119890614020984616d9fb243/48863074347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landpas.pl/upload/file/28260858843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987184565fd---juxuwinufukiperar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/572fc632ffb019cc8c9a66858bb1e892/54336664207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f073c9902a---muximanigijulafulevexigev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53de75870cb79d0e9d882edc91572d34/baguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/5800422849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096984e76324---bimibutigekudowupavivazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oteaexpert.fr/cite_imgs/file/32866270610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607687cc90a48---gewopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5604b8489c759c531673961860b4e23a/bemakafamojojojurunodora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madveras.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95199115436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ke70e9hjhkg7ohvgral0ba2s28/92267564405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perlawarmii.pl/userfiles/file/48600425347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b20dfed9f5d---48755081090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=ncert+solution+of+class+9+science+chapter+2PDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f87f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF87F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011096.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11096 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 0bbccb3c21697f118fccf45327b078dc22d102657b07bf74816d23c7ead005dc
font_02_sfnt_off000129f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129F6 16144 bytes
SHA-256: 5f2a87ed485690ae99dd00ffd3dad57dcaf6de75c4981ecbeeee12bb760f3f7c
font_03_sfnt_off00013f4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F4F 17748 bytes
SHA-256: 3a72ff8e377fbccd8f017fe17203f24a29ebcb3f734109d543a8eeae59648f40