Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cea9da4f98484ac7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 05:11:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 91befe7389a0db35250c6db687cee483 SHA-1: 800a7ed7a2a20ecbd5a9e7405a9e632e80dc3ae3 SHA-256: cea9da4f98484ac78c97fdcc4328fd79420981b90146fa9552f50c389b60a0eb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF containing numerous links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The embedded URLs are likely used to redirect users to malicious sites for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=linear+algebra+and+optimization+for+machine+learning+pdf+download
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f054f01473---87265144033.pdf
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090896712b56---64137383209.pdf
    • https://hsse.cl/files/51633050767.pdf
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2c47827828---91042797640.pdf
    • http://tourister.kr/userfiles/file/74539980427.pdf
    • http://spearsyounglegacy.com/clients/b/b2/b2c23f164518415ec8f3c1c8d0af542d/File/powapodobunitubure.pdf
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4b3162598e---21039300070.pdf
    • https://designclarf.it/file/58245348807.pdf
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1bca729d4c461cda13d5538fdd135c3/91339443175.pdf
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b27dcd933---17367167673.pdf
    • http://ebsenglish.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/19148125125.pdf
    • https://bawwabatrizq.com/userfiles/file/ridituluba.pdf
    • https://fotoprint.lv/downloads/file/54186168113.pdf
    • http://bertrandetgastineaudesigners.fr/userfiles/file/rowosarodabedufubarinuzir.pdf
    • http://ok-poland.com/userfiles/file/75114111330.pdf
    • http://softtox.com/new/userfiles/file/suzuwusa.pdf
    • https://blsautomation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dururasijosap.pdf
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac03b442edc---70473141674.pdf
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/39700109378.pdf
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae275188b28---suxirineduko.pdf
    • http://b-solutions.net/userfiles/file/sazunumikobaxaw.pdf
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bea01ab749ed15a4a41fc25ac4deeb20/78281380826.pdf
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a814656a97f---6116909702.pdf
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s33agnga6pbq7h0pfba6bl8qj5/91696784094.pdf
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfb6fd6b5a9---pixujinov.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb3b.bin
faa236aa123f97837088bd7d87934bf9c9885cc51617dcab1c742203fb61c93d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB3B 16892 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001172c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1172C 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012f43.bin
c684dd79c22bc9e327fd4f6cfcec66b8258737824976de3ac531f1fd01b596bb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F43 11140 bytes