Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea4695ff21db9782…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-08-06 05:57:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 7598f4bea946b8f850c9324b014e64d3 SHA-1: 7229a423f1bf31700f4d6b69f2d2acbf3f7be5f6 SHA-256: ea4695ff21db97828cf934af848513af0709dcd2d6d28c7ded18f6adea5e6a3a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to distribute malicious files. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with PDF-based malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d327cb0596---15037123002.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11c52b448678058265342d61425f0135/disaxolamawok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oiqastagv0gth52692pu0peh9r/14162297607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/files/dodebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitylightsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5abd58fb25cf932a35459420e413dfc2/11253121705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/27850286493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9604b261f8dfa64d58a38f9d4d53d072/50704894869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurouniversal.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74668974799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bephoangdung.vn/uploads/ckfinder/files/19951526974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1e02d334f7---pupat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/266b2ceee8956b52bf7aa9f186f8ca4f/28792937511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kustari.net/userfiles/file/68631469938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae4ae1dc2eb---60690019405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitalsyndic.com/userfiles/file/nijizirevaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aba373e952b---32316122482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab7185d0281---puraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spoilersmensgolfclub.com/clients/865201/File/17953777296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v1ck3omnn9epigkklco3cuvpf4/98139928421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://senseoftourism.dk/userfiles/file/kevaxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842e0a394ba---bosugufofatobaziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/sexilak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c44feb58017---78194897107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b0145a0b1f0b18c6b40019fa10bbdd0/40633955420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5f3ffb10f1---vakaninuwuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=romeo+and+juliet+full+movie+1996+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000f0dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000108f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108F3 11160 bytes
SHA-256: 6536108d3620ef443e37308e1fcb3de84a5d8e4953509317f8811f161cc05dc1
font_02_sfnt_off00012303.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12303 17968 bytes
SHA-256: 4214322069ade12b6168ca8a3457e964676c08b7938e9b96c85d093d0d62eec7