Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea072ee22a44068a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-06-27 09:13:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 82f4001fa65c25e30f2e7bf188dec2e2 SHA-1: 7c517e09353a32adaa8b1bb52f20afe3283ea5c3 SHA-256: ea072ee22a44068a9c6cb31ecaf2074511e2ef5610bd15a851d9d055850079ae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=isolation+assurance+service
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab8040be30---99309362870.pdf
    • https://hometeamcorp.com/images/usr/45943533226.pdf
    • https://ayurvedaemart.com/uploads/file/12981008889.pdf
    • http://colorfulmedia.de/fotki/fotki/file/38804076717.pdf
    • http://bjsprt.com/uploadfile/file///2021052505455959.pdf
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d2551b1b95---95302518036.pdf
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d7480ed17---tutopepadufezanizogeke.pdf
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8a7ps9rsnad9ht7rnet0lvob3/12735977591.pdf
    • http://cnex.cc/images/blog//file/fibojemasalegadudukuxabo.pdf
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5986a3c8e9---mugilogiditonigujaxuda.pdf
    • http://thuephotocopytaihanoi.com/upload/files/44991657441.pdf
    • http://ufnk.fr/app/webroot/files/file/nuxexituzalemifesu.pdf
    • https://vanphongphampmc.com/upload/files/fagasurat.pdf
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a245311fd5f6bb2de131ce448e0c0e7c/22566717223.pdf
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a88ed9c6d7a---rotowi.pdf
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7334b3e90a---59500043165.pdf
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/93548658436.pdf
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e221bff53---lupis.pdf
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf2fc45c0a0---82847556102.pdf
    • http://alfavs.eu/userfiles/file/15776639619.pdf
    • http://uppercanadatwocylinderclub.com/clients/877835/File/zulixopukidizaguzalutow.pdf
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f8f651037c---67612135273.pdf
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ceca58e0ca2---15242896750.pdf
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160babdaed8923---12247081591.pdf
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vvi4bu0f5ek2l58k2ibfntnu76/8124939368.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_off0000eeb8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB8 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000106cf.bin
d77992eadbc22765a1827f8dfd000ab25451ec2a9ece3e93c7b2a1a6f8347cd8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106CF 10340 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011e52.bin
6f8ca7b7cd135bbc29b61dfa6871ec182ad2f78171a5956516b1b3743e38911c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E52 17156 bytes