Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ea5fade164c4f4a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-06-29 03:18:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 8130055b7d5bd76a2a424f0f1ce386fd SHA-1: d16af953882f70a3b3495604d135f792e9b8bb5c SHA-256: 9ea5fade164c4f4a80540b69b6709d8efbc1f174227538080dd0c4269c51b19e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 https://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+great+gatsby+chapter+questions+and+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f1a447502b---11671986292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwishop.hu/file/vipuzekotinute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fdb817e86440ff4298eb718d711fdbb/95621196533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae32a51f410---99817536439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/43980744554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-28/20210528162946698653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/460a67564f811262a8407c5d0bac0512/30837545140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c6cf88c314---73208547064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f9e2d1cae06d01daba3d34e2ddc8b88/88534842992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10340466528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860013d6202---94312707462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dbebc088d4---mufimogatomelufulesinizuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b66cd7d9611---vajivekufozem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atmaircenter.com/lb/userfiles/files/1414641937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a719a102168---68401371332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amsasecretariat.fr/userfiles/file/73249204213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a4129aec03---ropab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/noxinexoteramixekudagido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sfe5ltkvbfktdm1hobnc93qnr4/kedezezexituwas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47c02533c364e0ab26d1624d93b2152a/93871358000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samrayburnclassof1980reunion.com/clients/873185/File/120923642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/gujabibaxawovakekix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24e03e79cb029b8c974de4980f3e5869/melarugutup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8a905ec52e---79085786932.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_off0000cb1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB1F 16444 bytes
SHA-256: ddf281edc94001718b9cf9572bbc011c4b4170ae2534ba2e10425d5df542ca12
font_01_sfnt_off0000f569.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF569 11296 bytes
SHA-256: 13912b94e1b0beaba3f5bb071c9a3d3090594e3fe573e2de3f2a9fd163f6670d
font_02_sfnt_off00010f47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F47 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1