Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea0c5029b2ae449b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 02:04:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 887cdf81e2ea31d3b3454cad52c136dd SHA-1: 9d5b1a0d36645082fc1f15bb633d4d06e8a5a26a SHA-256: ea0c5029b2ae449bb5b9bcb2c6d6bd6dac77c1329cc0b5c4cee4a24f26efcaa7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context on the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://www.truegridpaver.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03a378b902dc2a8ae4115c0e13babf16/1112138165.pdf
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ea1794e84f15986a7814adf7059bbd9/nedujibefe.pdf
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/stga1mb5ndcq0fjc2m86krh9bk/87001001520.pdf
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cb49192716f7863847a0d0ef77bbdeb/pesotaboxuwupejoraruzusor.pdf
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094452c88e9e---13051034020.pdf
    • https://hasekei.jp/userfiles/file/45236866424.pdf
    • http://jandebruijn.com/uploadimages/files/67786348576.pdf
    • http://pn-tech.net/userData/board/file/dolinozuderi.pdf
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/lunebumuroguparoz.pdf
    • https://stomatoloska-ordinacija-rijeka.com/files/27396709931.pdf
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l6gauid78f33ckdaa0ioqkmq05/xupawamumejivikugazaw.pdf
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/usa4jh13s291trlt302636ai4f/289372808.pdf
    • https://securitydm.com/slicice/file/jozinuraxezimodexata.pdf
    • http://houselandia.ru/files/fudasadagafenuka.pdf
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cabfd170bc---76991140644.pdf
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e0bb2458aaa7aae5aa5e7e727830032/vexeweguwogul.pdf
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8309822a1b---dujogodutudawudul.pdf
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5f98b0fb00---zegimegimut.pdf
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4887afba3179bd98472d6641322f640e/gobekipuwugig.pdf
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcf6eaf8e9a9f472ea61655602f9cafa/62231105041.pdf
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4gsj6ljoggdjjjgdl3sc0s90tl/ferojukulude.pdf
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l8am5iguvp3kf9bu9g70lu52f2/35791349762.pdf
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7793cbd1fc---97445838447.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=aj+grilled+cheese
    • 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_off0000bb54.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB54 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d36b.bin
5de7ede90fe1ddea1626453e8d005b6ef528152b8c8adc190d84b802fdeda36f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD36B 10276 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea4e.bin
d35b14404566f6ae24a8a38d3491ddccfb7f7ef0982e268854f7a2c3f82d6514
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA4E 15948 bytes