Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ea0ab501c7f368f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-08 23:49:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 2eb0ebbc8a12ef88ce325071acc5752e SHA-1: 71c0dcdf58120ac30912e8bf635ca262590a05ac SHA-256: 1ea0ab501c7f368f7fc20adfe35c4722a8b88e375cd907cd7dce1b10eb153575
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting sites. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in URLs suggests a phishing or SEO-based lure to drive traffic to potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=migraine+light+headed PDF link annotation
    • http://happyhanool.com/ckupload/files/31223878428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/63753245065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ed19edf8285bc633335252ce23bc67b/kituvojefilizulinem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sintsprev-ms.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuvug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serrechevalier-skifun.com/imagesfile/50901003059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/mivogiduritadakonone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikincielinmak.com/upload/ckfinder/files/daxixilejiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euromarkcreations.com/new/fck_img/file/nijosumarivijalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135e92282d34---ziwumosemubegejetoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137ca421a4f6---vunikapuzeneduxepitewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casinodanmarkjackpot.dk/userfiles/file/runavabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorod-r.com/userfiles/file/70799670699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eltechma.com/zdjecia/fck/file/woxoseverabuteji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.com/userfiles/file/zolavajetimonuxamotamaram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f4821fc3d---26432901422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136b3bfd2e8e---doribuxajevadubolevekemam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agronlogistics.com/userfiles/files/fajilerovewofaditebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwfinlay.com/uploads/files/mokoxonukisovelupitoxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lcgkln8hteo76qvsh7h0gdrgrp/wukozowogabopikimufudaxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asztromiskolc.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98048764818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuatudongsaigon.net/uploads/files/81977572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.net/contents/files/65403602777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipforiraq.com/userfiles/files/pupegadibidogenudopok.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_off0000da05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA05 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f21c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF21C 10232 bytes
SHA-256: 3f98bf0869e6d6872bda7e93f7568c31f4d14b3dcd4ae31eaa9817311d65eede
font_02_sfnt_off000108bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108BF 18376 bytes
SHA-256: 3d84bb5f5be57449a6deb1ad7b19d734dff7e5c376fbda729f2f5fc0b7ab237e