Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1eea740f88aeb5c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-06-26 16:20:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 52bf17be2ea91d438dd56da97b4fc851 SHA-1: 5e3854c625c9a347a4c151ae2618c7b082131936 SHA-256: 1eea740f88aeb5c4df0ef3cd249a1eb0f1ad06cc546080fe749c09a4b362812d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs hosted on compromised CMS platforms and disposable domains. The primary purpose appears to be to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160957e501f3a3---72061516400.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160749f5462221---10792984470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/31977602043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f03993225c5e8b2c96439206d127659/gasonogonixajaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d79b2f6e1---67388735758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightcelebrates.ca/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/tezibapivilirixatod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/979eb724c2e74d672b90a900ff9c3ba2/65094309741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/rajuriguzamedox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab9d2678ce8---56072372299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d609fd0775e---83975198058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcoderesearch.com/uploads/48835176564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9784f2f3f3---8023259336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2p6p3nr6g9gq4foi6rda5qa0hq/minadexosidagufetojexox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d9a5bb307e---detavudimupogotipukog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3homaitidd8rjqd55g0uuqibm2/47660861515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/97270363952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontanarosaserigrafia.it/userfiles/file/letamimuvowitasuluduzoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a977e98ecf84c7fcda346252429c5d41/38535300949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angel-juicer.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210620_6B83C40EB6342FA3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf6de55ded---timaditavubasafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphabodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/38472868547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a59af0760a6---89279227932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dda51a475222ee00f294668b2eba4f3/paruzirukekubowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af1e8f12f53aab9b7184634301ab487c/zipivex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=fruit+glycemic+index+chartPDF 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_off0000df60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF60 16872 bytes
SHA-256: 228b51f054a73b1fea789d1390c6891cf7e30086eef57a199529a37e60c10802
font_01_sfnt_off00010bd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BD0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000123e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123E7 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 45bfddc8267edb868dd1063de5588ebb0c360fb7dc5dc86ebe8f56afccb11fb3