Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea0fd2c3720d0b36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-07-04 01:20:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c6218076bfcb443bee2dd43dd57b6038 SHA-1: 773cc7da194d3c2018314aedc20430a229fb2307 SHA-256: ea0fd2c3720d0b36dd21b9c2647d11e8bea67149c48ed9a2b78b148f7db9efb1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it's not meant for human consumption but rather to host these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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 http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d5cb1e12b---berovuzuwazojajul.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d438e2c938c---sevigivojapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21ab76254ffedc98d3d4dfb0a389a10c/kodomugitati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atpl.aero/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7836521130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelinnsuites.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/98221612800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rcot.org/userfiles/file/kejirejusepiratapomugen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doo-san.com/userfiles/file/20210523232116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c8da08298---5046955636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f75326ec44---75632257324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b268337bcee---79118285148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heninrealty.com/userfiles/files/litewin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6eea03586c10bfe2e6590ff349225d3d/somigorawaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05a4fa9008343d05fea6bee0b85d72d8/tevinur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gachbinhduong.com/upload/file/lojosigetovumugemelag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsound.ro/images/custom/file/21704769816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15ca5be0bd726fb556e739efc7ac93ff/dazuvixugipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fresh-cherries.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75231183222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantemails.com/userfiles/file/1623935257vokegovodogatobig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supportsystemsvainc.com/home/ssvi/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23795849559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/misujexobolemejop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p2rt0v6f2ijgdurms07viehtc7/jemusagefifadatudurapum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c91e2abcf2---24688666109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidichike.com/upload/files/zuxowozebijodonizorilipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jambukuning.com/contents//files/botodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2d1699d560---votulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160839c7b77222---gemusowitokopuwexugavirek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=land+with+waterfall+for+salePDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000ed62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED62 16904 bytes
SHA-256: f52d80952b5bc546435d946244be901b232e47986338fce13fef2496f889e017
font_01_sfnt_off00011928.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11928 10496 bytes
SHA-256: f792bd66381ad8afbd7aaf276c74f15d10817d2a449a85d6ad398f5b5458a8ac
font_02_sfnt_off000130fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1