Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea20259430698c6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-07-08 06:59:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: bf6000eb2f863b59a0c3939ac5b44d23 SHA-1: 3dea573ca583d633b3859550408fe883faf62283 SHA-256: ea20259430698c6a5898cb7ab8356249f6aafa6feb89f00607ad1bf6ea63bba8
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of malicious redirection tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+my+mobile+code PDF link annotation
    • http://shreejians.com/userfiles/file/dubaxilik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc322bec50a---xuluti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607137a43cddc---29186557157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidtrading.com/public_html/userfiles/file/79179071719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca550e6d92---41194231100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99be4bbc291ef5b7c3bf5c78b8631f85/82925828137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.herewardcarpets.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7rmi5ifffbfsoekiaasffumgl3/49695216596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/npdna2j1tqr04hlpgv8ukrg0qf/42542294830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ic0plnmvedqtqch9054q8cml5/nowoxajajobuzakupenaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2kvqofd5jhk2aslgl30qvojm6/60176935008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromavials.com/d/files/zepazuropekopugeloduled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609618de74cf2---fusitat.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926e2247056---59477754850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b03abb159b9fb3bafa454516b280fed7/romedenitipuvidixakigovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a30abfc678c---11528323702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/files/41451044790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/wobuvukasonej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanharteyoga.nl/uploads/files/wetiginifina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2f573d1ba308ab904d75709c56e8ea9/52185960612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.demetagras.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e8fee5e425---63194811519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b06c2bc0224---gibumono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jirehenl.com/userfiles/file/071557094600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bleikss.com/userfiles/file/nozuzuvejavakasas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/686af6b406f1d96c30faf6355ba7d937/82982716529.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_off0000ef04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF04 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001071b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1071B 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 48982b8ea2297075f5a5f89afaf0c35c34d0fc502585a2ebe844c5b4d718303a
font_02_sfnt_off00011fa6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FA6 17892 bytes
SHA-256: a8080cf7073aa0953e85de4bca4b4ea176a4c63b96503350c71adf6b5e608033