Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea421cb6c56ce7fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-07-25 05:26:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: bed6d5945cc75db47bf65c8ae8f6b5e6 SHA-1: cfa092f921d4fe3c50dfd1b55da039c619fdeea6 SHA-256: ea421cb6c56ce7fac79691db919bb388913118892fd5dee19330b0b4485f3588
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external links suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9932

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 http://hgbs.de/userfiles/file/didagerexorowiriporuto.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bygreenpure.com/userfiles/file/1731012132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bindashnews.com/userfiles/file/25700367798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advik.net/userfiles/file/42037191049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0eb0c7cbf4f74a3d4590f21c3cb41628/raribilegumurudeguvojezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e7d9bcd7b---11549689016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emrc.ie/upload/imagecontent/file/gozofefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/jobanafekapisujetineluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podhoru.cz/userfiles/file/26003076282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpszone.hu/upload/userfiles/file/55991101929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanakyaaerospacedefence.com/userfiles/file/19277316828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa3d6056af2---gefaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa1f792ec1a---wupuxakujokoroxifeketed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d81f0b5a55822ebf415d363be4ac121/26059166648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076adf86fd1d---kabapet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alteanetworks.fr/img/file/42254658207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40f2fe25306a18aa6cc8183be2839928/81774689570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/83662891216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2q06c307ib89g0g6936qvh9kv5/buzedavadapizime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c649d1980ee---sepemadab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82f1f791a483a6d528583cf2ec680525/sosovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5591053c3f60360ca572ebf40c30bd2e/dofagidezabeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acudrved.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dinogijurutinobusagibip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citronixdeflection.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/96679072388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f143ba0dac---35455780640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb998d21888acc2eaec3e61ed68509b4/roputipekemoxutuvusefup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+change+the+dome+on+a+phonak+hearing+aidPDF 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_off0000fba4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBA4 16820 bytes
SHA-256: c36e6b7c1b39a61f43d81ce2f66e1cd72acb15125f645b12936a4bac657f3a8f
font_01_sfnt_off0001273e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1273E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013f55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F55 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 70b73737b79ca618c2b0a51498812b207de6b367faa1db43c65f6ebbf749e0b5