Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea210a011e471d3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.5 KB Created: 2021-08-07 02:07:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 434927d1af98cda9acf32e056c2e8e27 SHA-1: 159cad36a4ca850355455be22da728ce06baca2e SHA-256: ea210a011e471d3ee76a78edb2737abd7f36953530d401b626b032b77c5f6305
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs suggests a phishing or social engineering attempt to lure users into clicking on these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=reading+interest+survey+middle+school+pdf
    • http://eaas-journal.org/survey/userfiles/files/jureziledez.pdf
    • https://kodcomputers.ro/2664/uploads/57209177446.pdf
    • https://xn--z4qq44i.xn--kpry57d/upload/actfiles/60858134986.pdf
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dfde3b8a8e2---nefanekisajepalazonono.pdf
    • https://peptidturkiye.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57542916701.pdf
    • https://citytrafik.nu/images/file/44027659078.pdf
    • http://chiangmai-clean.com/user_img/files/52578631083.pdf
    • http://sylvianapoles.com/clients/e/e6/e63d90d46a840f0b3195f531cec11f6e/File/gapiwokugigelun.pdf
    • https://laetitiabernard.fr/images/file/vakiva.pdf
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607714d32f0b8---55922802975.pdf
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/978d055552619b5749b967f01b140219/bozulubemopugulo.pdf
    • https://dptech.vn/uploads/files/xalewonerupizire.pdf
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f57a361073---babor.pdf
    • https://shen-su.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/71970280004.pdf
    • http://seyrimerdin.com/userfiles/file/nabazoganunoveri.pdf
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a63fdfc7b---babuto.pdf
    • http://vo23.ru/upload/file/35070746384.pdf
    • https://zevkotodoseme.com/upload/ckfinder/files/67735608067.pdf
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a468eef2c3f---losivasokidodadi.pdf
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2c0401b7c---titirolajimasagowivuzepen.pdf
    • http://bestofbeer.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30167483914.pdf
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2820e4dd5b5f727c25d88f1fd5e9e72/77933794561.pdf
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jf13a73koup3e7s1593cb98ms0/vezegemubaduja.pdf
    • https://abrasco.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15203028981.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f560.bin
c7bc4375456c7627b5706741ea65affd688996d84c44223fdb6573b9f93f99fb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF560 11392 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010fdc.bin
d8ec2ce4b691c9f1df83b1b3a7cd0b24759bcbaf40cdf898170bfc8bdd5b519b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FDC 17068 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013c3e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C3E 16792 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001544f.bin
6765b23bd5bb06b0b1af0b092dddc52ced5784d577553baf02d3007c82a340b0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1544F 17120 bytes