Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea173d323c152431…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.8 KB Created: 2021-06-26 15:51:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 7dd52105473c620222d268cbcde050e5 SHA-1: b954a71f940a0119c5a396599ebab05e35d75e0d SHA-256: ea173d323c15243108aab0368d0d45334a9c1bb8912209ab68f74e027539c63c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The file contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful websites. The presence of compromised CMS upload links further supports this, indicating a technique to host malicious content on legitimate but compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=artificial+intelligence+reading+comprehension+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://iwistw.com/upload/files/zeworamutuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legouic-peinture.fr/userfiles/file/43098680839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olympicwroclaw.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/zuxirakoselulirolix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bpsstudio.hu/uploads/muzexaxijulunosajixitipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfaa74225ad---45500252971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/chr1oqlrspl5fafm1q3ov7ndl4/bagowijidufevigimufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmarlboropike.com/uploads/files/rurimudegowemawolefoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synowka.pl/galeria/file/22214185764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donkaew-furniture.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66659826324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079c8c465af5---naburojinusovuseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a751775fa63---pujomenomajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ff115ce8bc188abe23dd073296bd8cb/72978775067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samuiluxurytravel.com/Uploads/file/kuririnidakawani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dajuicebarus.com/uploads/files/91415374937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e750eda1e6616f4d7408b6db0e51120/95694224397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a84749ef0df---56283558260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buergerforum-tirol.at/file/414456364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tele-klass.ru/i/upload/files/lokaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://se-ty.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/xixesineli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c69bf26431f---welupirumapuzomuzovojise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kfsj8vkams6i95mvogk4js3e2i/39016058895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://llsindia.in/FCKeditor/file/tijenupagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f637d0ec58---44997171139.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_off00011c9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C9D 16912 bytes
SHA-256: 890bb1c1cbe046a1bf34c43ab140a3124f466522916a5b8b9a19719b49e9e9c1
font_01_sfnt_off00014873.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14873 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 8501e2d68030bd0922b381be828df6f74762fe992e550b3061029528b1961460
font_02_sfnt_off000161c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x161C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1