Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea17573a8e440cc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 01:55:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: cf549790cb597dc7662eaea999c24be7 SHA-1: f9114e03fad1b03ca91c7596a79bfbd64322d234 SHA-256: ea17573a8e440cc87d351932160abf1e87ec5fb67507eed02eebb60777cb6503
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://jindi2010.com/uploadfile/files/28800913765.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cityface.cz/res/file/24445913125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34q75521hb3hka9hljice74n69/57111242933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46c953f80037f323371a58d23d0898df/kelitosabevelopanudibaxel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aroma-es.site/yamituki-n/uploads/files/37353204356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1866e28b8---vafux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/627a6761aa4d37ad4cd248fa62596a01/88379591493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drrajanmahtani.com/userfiles/files/pigiwezuzitowikivexam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unnatiwelfareorganization.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zovusul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3b45e3132---79623748771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puppies-4u.com/clients/e/e7/e7f09595da74c05d2059c741134300d2/File/mopiriwafiginitijuwiwosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f7e2f3f302---52695044037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ab8d96204---33594418676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4c30594ec2---xubopedufigovuwezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ae9b0acaca---kosefelamisulizelorebazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1612c0e7bbfb299a55da6642d5d88691/96016130366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broorybulldogs.com/clients/33993/File/44422249035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a10faccb4caa1634bc7ae16a7e25f35f/49962745601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105e4ce9ac6b---2160139773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbf585c538---nazasematunirogilufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97a832j0u8kpiptapmare7ppk8/delavul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f10aea9f8cabfa9d227f09cfe8b4631/potuderem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnhs1964.com/clients/a/a2/a2d7b74ded15306de89ee4bbe2f7ed3f/File/penuxavuzev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=baixar+pdf+gratis+adobePDF 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_off0000f667.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF667 18052 bytes
SHA-256: 7231861f05177f4c8f0ec99f466a0897fdb86b23cc65446fc6d17d5b1ac7512f
font_01_sfnt_off0001255a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1255A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013d71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D71 10820 bytes
SHA-256: a3917e67c13ab05855d86d23752c8b9a319a9b24d84b40b5236170bd6ea4b885