Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea403a0447d519db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 05:03:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: cafca00d0404694dc05520686662943a SHA-1: a1b87abc6dfa8c4f1a4aa6cb3181257105095a0b SHA-256: ea403a0447d519dbd26cdffed047a99b8af2d32c503f6473e6dc93c66c3ef57d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress installations. These links likely serve as a link farm to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 https://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=aumentare+l%27autostima+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ddc923affd---folilab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/373f554202d3dca8c03d58448985b799/gizudanonepes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohcsi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69670515994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6jgij4fprv67can13lr6qsnpp6/vilovozurotujatukepuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przedszkolenisko.pl/userfiles/file/71427100552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skontrolsengineering.com/file_media/file_image/file/vodowok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/el0a3elqma4ucrf049pb3qa3d1/60086702622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g80frdnbjo88bo1rukfumi50s4/78403108097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uzmanwebci.com/calisma2/files/uploads/gunezipimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--22ck6bdp5cach0mc23a.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97524955650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105fdf2c358d---50650314801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steakclubhn.com/campannas/file/pulokabikutewadojuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutrishop.in/ci/userfiles/files/91110762823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/gofopusemejesifefubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aventura-agence.lu/userfiles/files/61150227233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bvtp2qolc2ck5li7fibclhsg8g/mixulutakenul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svsteinfurth.de/radsportfiles/file/22652098457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mbzl-pro.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/73829644655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inventory-acepipe.com/images/uploads/files/gepadidazenapolewiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bj2hm9t62bcqd4agd8klosf5hb/65375032024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroytehcentr.ru/images/file/zusikalelozuralezefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tedvandergulik.nl/userimages/file/puwotumuwunivug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16075abcff1d3b---liloxavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terezmisszio.eu/files/file/49348389866.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_off0000d63e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD63E 16952 bytes
SHA-256: 92af4c4aabe666da39da8441021fb83848accf29204e3c2626e84744e1a1f65f
font_01_sfnt_off00010245.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10245 10776 bytes
SHA-256: c7800bb47e9f3c762c602118d9226a384af5192268eb53dd524eb8d9942e0714
font_02_sfnt_off00011b19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B19 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1