Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea40df419bd9ac6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-07-16 00:34:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: c8ecc907a01e7bef32eb05a56468800f SHA-1: 226a30f5e4a8b5cc25d08d7640eaf15cafc71d0e SHA-256: ea40df419bd9ac6c5a59b97e7f3f043e8caac19be1dfa32a4a92cddfa9156cae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to other PDFs hosted on potentially compromised websites. This suggests a multi-stage attack where the initial PDF serves to redirect users to further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://mexvp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rupexa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://livresdarts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pigixupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15449010.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210618_26D18C5844136A25.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buzmakov-ua.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mofadutakesagufaledumes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0275faedf96d87f7bf8d7edb769e210f/97536540206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d44b718d0a---figoxekivot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072687cdf92f---nimidebijilosimugej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3drm.bg/uploads/pictures/files/13551609345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicaldistri.com/ckfinder_files/files/mazabolarax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckd-otto.com/contents//files/45815442987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condominiobrisasdelnorte.com/userfiles/file/72936674803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f5f72eca2---89090677354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cff9cdd94d75951fe12cc2280d9db3f/lafigunagopoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrosteadycam.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e27446f21920083584ea21fe916eb59c/17055165390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tribo.kz/userfiles/File/xufisakevawemog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bwc.lt/i/94933420090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fo-prefectures.com/pages/files/51226670729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2ebc47e6604a02eb2ca7cd2a547fd88/18638579351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dieta-plus.pl/userfiles/file/fogosibiwixeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://writtenmail.com/upload_images/file/xobuwokopasulavotimizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcenevents.nl/site/upload/files/41405817205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fobosgrunt.ru/files/ckfinder/files/bozejeximipufawapudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/611da1d90b0dab1dc8c332a2c6d15c21/50374894852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orvosvalaszto.hu/uploads/files/83982162365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgyscom.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-24/20210624153828245808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=canker+sore+from+toothbrushPDF 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_off0000eb1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB1A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001032c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1032C 16528 bytes
SHA-256: 382a5b8c59b0e43dbaf136c63f9e778e3c23b701fe8d45980f3ec962e875b2bb
font_02_sfnt_off00012dfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DFD 10704 bytes
SHA-256: ecfabec38c4e519bcb73e8f1694cb397052f2f35142dbbd2423b56bc5965c28c