Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea18561ebc1ec5b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 08:12:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 37f63f3ce648645a0a99457889319f9d SHA-1: 49a5949b2a16ee6de178891dc6b5c6bef45037bd SHA-256: ea18561ebc1ec5b7ff69eb0017e37d3b4f3b385b0ca2a7a85f0a81bac2bd98ab
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains numerous links to external resources, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the idea that the document is designed to trick users into downloading a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://ahha.az/userfiles/file/gigajakijod.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://josephfellerlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zemeserofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fioredda.com/userfiles/files/43361023371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesartsdansmonjardin.com/userfiles/file/20210727180426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2434d1dbe110e8d08b94f3f698e0913f/23461633695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f243eb7c762---binibapakusaxuxotukikef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a16b6ea46d6---pizurogosofimepevuzizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b9df0ca619b8bbb51a454011bf0c3b8/fisaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prime-standard.com/piceditor/file/ranunogasekavuduzulajati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612662b171de6---61915738497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tablica-nieruchomosci.pl/uploades/fckeditorfile/7911099834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laureysnv.be/uploads/files/dezup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f241b378fe6---vujipisodena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jullien38.com/ressource/site-image/files/14485503225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j2lc3s383opjubitnciplea10s/27784798243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8a8cf3f793---wuzununolozadokevetutebis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-fryazino.ru/upload_picture/file/seroruvefuvuwakililoziput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7e7165d4ec---guwegorosotigigusuxipibow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/202187528499242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splhardware.com/UploadFile/file/2021072810280973499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/22575089319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/tepofuvunupunoduwuwek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=12th+chemistry+book+volume+2+tamil+medium+pdfPDF 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_off00011824.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11824 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013036.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13036 24916 bytes
SHA-256: 92c735cac73f2347709030db06e1ee3b74ded63bab08af9f1892ca4397c92b17
font_02_sfnt_off00016e3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16E3F 11368 bytes
SHA-256: adc4a05704b9886bc4727ef68d48c40f02598f2f0f2d046e7de46b278bd9faa9