Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea0ac376dce1c397…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 12:53:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 361ad86f22cf5b9b491cde6c9cbe652a SHA-1: 27a06222bb0fffcad491860460e772fb8caa5168 SHA-256: ea0ac376dce1c3973eb9b320c390001a08222960b44e35d6c24594c58d582ea9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs like 'https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=active+credit+card+generator' further supports a phishing or scam-related attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=active+credit+card+generator PDF link annotation
    • http://onsijsselstein.nl/userfiles/files/bazowawalutom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southerncross-ex.com/images/blog/file/95534928748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geonatlife.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55045124314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirche-treuen.de/UserFiles/File/4618631803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asqcert.net/files/files/7864623935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pantonerestauri.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90094137026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/bomukuvosoregigeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhitienvuong.com/uploads/files/bigokaganada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linhngapt.vn/upload/files/tafevividus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vili-al.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/neniwututemut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dukeofmarshall.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/geten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthimaycafe.vn/uploads/file/gepep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ji-tien.com/userfiles/file/45052861377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gancza-yacht.pl/userfiles/file/4213988427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613737aa5250d---71987992807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161427bf120888---86724114271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipceurope.be/assets/file/37229345783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosebankprimary.co.za/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/derarubovafadafigil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pantipplaza.com/userfiles/file/38852892038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/vebujizuleku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7h18fqnbc4ofg970vvtu7qd575/84993417057.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_off0000b305.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB305 15780 bytes
SHA-256: 52fceeda284959194cfd694a6a644b6061674769224e1100c903871e08389547
font_01_sfnt_off0000db41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB41 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f358.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF358 10380 bytes
SHA-256: 91aa1396c18e21b91b449f88ac59b187e5b0dac631fe0f5fbee4c5411abf7c21