Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ea779a48dcb9415…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-13 04:22:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 8f23be84cebdf2cd2bfb9a1217f8c632 SHA-1: f5c0ac32c10470b45b1447ea3d50875642195005 SHA-256: 2ea779a48dcb94155b81f1e85088d004fb3f6b11100581b9611e274c8f1be0b2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://tysons-cafe.com/uploads/files/88934599198.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs/files/sajajizivovufitenaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocariola.com/userfiles/files/3085357581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vwb.mrv-educationservices.com/content_file/files/1453690988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomei4x4.jp/js/upload/files/mubim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowenlawmt.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/dufok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoledesgourmets.com/userfiles/file/9486712652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindergartenhelden.at/upload/file/60769083192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/48338058458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamzalegalservices.com/userfiles/file/pawafamititagagisepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139852b05f07---wejabujife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuresi-kaitori.com/upload/content_pic/files/78894747451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maydemtienvn.com/upload/files/41440831104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyaoqiye.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-7/20210907201331512131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://integrotech.com/zdjecia/file/55171804783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krossi.ru/images/content/files/joxunekimawafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://georgewongdesign.com/gwd/upload/files/21429390418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138b656e1b19---tiwutekobuzejisez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motivationandmomentum.net/ci/userfiles/files/50930757109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chsins.tw/uploads/files/202109081111188828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cichanski.com/Upload/file/wobudisiwatob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inruho.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45090996440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paramountswimwear.com/userfiles/files/nirupupuxovoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qco8nsthh5ler4ik3komv0n8s4/85306276673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=neopets+for+androidPDF 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_off0000d5f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5F7 10424 bytes
SHA-256: 591f26ae65d7c563193ccaf97e859a3a715a85430d4af7a16eb1dc3f96b56781
font_01_sfnt_off0000edb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDB9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000105cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105CB 19004 bytes
SHA-256: 97216c46c2b41f35745c31d4b23b70c4e8da264ecce440f868121f946bc4f598