Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea421c6648a6145a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.9 KB Created: 2021-10-04 02:37:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 804d45e6dae7387d1777e1f604484f51 SHA-1: 473372b7b7f0ba51940bcc9ec852da1dc5e1bcdd SHA-256: ea421c6648a6145a65e229a43e513f9b345dd20c59d3a95583c1eb90c2e817c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm the malicious nature of the file, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=weight+lifting+schedule+for+mass PDF link annotation
    • http://netichikawaya.com/userfiles/file/63567969863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ebecb9b83a---33378874357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belitour.ir/basefile/belitourir/files/ruvafokedakoregaluwiteno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basaritarim.net/admin/editor_resim/file/vidiluwomonodamimudeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csaladiegyteruautok.hu/userfiles/files/doxupumotabali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arvikabc.com/images/uploadedimages/file/morotomelunised.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masihpt1.com/contents/files/dezujeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suurelepa.ee/data/file/1034497322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcc-sa.com/motakamel/Ups/files/27626537258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanyangsteel.com/files/fckeditor/file/1357519104612eb3f64fcf9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tageedesign.com/ssmpt/documents/file/pipasubidujarugegapok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytlcases.com/userfiles/file/pivuwupukumosimukekofuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deep2001.com/images/library/File/61298596654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-cosmik.ru/sadm_files/15472928769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakura-bashi.com/uploads/files/202109010309336056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cwesp.biz/upload/file/59937252296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://55pluscommunityspecialist.com/userfiles/files/62455124081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/44119147179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chongtham68.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/sojizilibesegiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tramtron.vn/uploads/files/files/kamudajudemevamunajapom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luisacortesearchitetto.it/userfiles/files/wosisovoginuzulovajuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c2d3d15db3---12979515566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tri-or.fr/tri-or/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/dusuberasisutunurarabi.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_off0000ae4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE4F 11016 bytes
SHA-256: 445f3d47d08b4b314c4236ca04f1d23dc55cf1e48edc159682ad22b19c0bcd92
font_01_sfnt_off0000c784.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC784 15340 bytes
SHA-256: 65bae8b60d7c43f129f3e8514414d49c04ece04d0a5b988c58d6f28bd3ee4a41
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE54 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1