Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea04b665ddf145f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-07-03 09:49:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b6de41b7f2fdcc676971f2a8781be542 SHA-1: 0aec95afb15b98953c49e1947bf4c8e6db40aef7 SHA-256: ea04b665ddf145f4c644f335b05badad9c356e141f559bef9ddf8ed59bec4f05
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, 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. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery mechanisms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=main+and+supporting+ideas PDF link annotation
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b38f5bdca44---81670126472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dralituncer.net/userfiles/file/nojatenoxugaxitis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/rifirexabupolopuveriri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6cd376f1b3---jixepazafepofatenebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2f1769452c---wukijegupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d046eb20471c1615a38d508b293799dd/tiralovezefilusowumakefed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u8mqqufm79kkl0lnsu8uqr7ng0/zurogumunato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce59e29f917a19b92e8da898723d74f1/naserifajifamiguzigipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fi19u7i4i3t433rv0p2gs23lt3/lovopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/560dd7eddf67b6cadc8439021c37b504/48895228891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lasvegasrebath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5872c1dff48a66ed2c1c78860db67ca5/49579126819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949870a27ab---57909917542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.biz/files/file/roxubirikibugapowiparata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyiksem.hu/uploads/file/44717159564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a1466123994c77d01b21cfb1d48ef41/67130021528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uticahighclassof78.com/clients/8/89/89c70e22fe5ad1405280b455f64975d7/File/dodedomobegepupilawujer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9132c281b---jiwanezopixawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capesociety.ca/uploads/files/xorebujekexazokamuwig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2109a9facd67fd0a8751ca4f05e38a10/rebapovadovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a29600d9e8---73430349529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuadienlanhhoaphat.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/93899479783.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_off0000c3e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3E5 15492 bytes
SHA-256: d35ee8ab947e8aed4fbb3d82dff00d6622b524e5145fe234887561dfdea8f343
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD0 10612 bytes
SHA-256: f8736cd19d4fbf27ec63d3da97c0b4ca8c0b06054697326f6cbeae2051da1f3e
font_02_sfnt_off000103fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103FD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1