Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dea4e6b2920cb8d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-08-12 23:47:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ba573bb3ea30ac0d596280d48c569d68 SHA-1: c55964bf169ca5986cfa7ae21d4f36290df9e5f6 SHA-256: dea4e6b2920cb8d5f0d08d1931af185d190c42a6f97d44f16851d1db4fe1dc02
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised 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 distributing further malware. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=spanish+2+irregular+preterite+verbs+worksheet
    • http://heureka-cz.eu/files/xuxaritu.pdf
    • http://wittlich-luexem.de/userfiles/file/nukewow.pdf
    • https://ktmcollege.org/public_html/userfiles/file/34120993688.pdf
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079881376ded---99204270799.pdf
    • https://makanbanyak.net/contents//files/tologodewosiwinifeba.pdf
    • https://xlspandoek.nl/userfiles/file/jiwowikibemet.pdf
    • http://mega.kz/media/upload/files/velesabugoxib.pdf
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f2c572aac0---46506696221.pdf
    • https://ms02bet.com/contents//files/37791444722.pdf
    • http://lumieretvie.com/userfiles/file/35621334123.pdf
    • https://telenovella-bg.com/files/75131543138.pdf
    • http://arunimaflavours.com/userfiles/file/lavimijizekuxodowerigog.pdf
    • http://feach.ie/images/uploads/file/68565596478.pdf
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d87b282a1ad63c9b2b976d21dc35c89/suvofo.pdf
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847504ed076---33903822469.pdf
    • https://sonarmusic.hu/up_image/file/5571735862.pdf
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41c231f29b3e222db4f17d27baa6abfd/19779784541.pdf
    • http://bahattinburyan.com/userfiles/file/11271338047.pdf
    • http://bright-inter.com/file_media/file_image/file/fewasiwuk.pdf
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/252c065b5c27bf203f318b0280762861/gilusagozusosupoloxopi.pdf
    • http://okzawidow.pl/img/upload/files/93690787827.pdf
    • https://rubyyadav.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/fuxajukug.pdf
    • https://nasroglobal.com/userfiles/file/mafivuf.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_off0000e0b8.bin
2199f8a50ba3fdf8e0e796dfd92502bd514f05d1c3b532e1644cdea817c53574
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0B8 17696 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010d97.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D97 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000125ae.bin
a8bdadfd061b244e29e6751e16789c19a1fc676bc14fbf89a839ed50d075891b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125AE 11208 bytes