Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea55a1765a6471a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 22:22:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: acf951bbe7556bb6c69529a72478f424 SHA-1: ab3a5183d0c18c69ae1bc3b21b739f438f5f8c22 SHA-256: ea55a1765a6471a975fc6e536fba9d74f28642442d8afccc9215453e05516426
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608775f5dc2cf---pirotidusi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cu-mbc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27672157071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/748e7c5d9c5552562a7d45b481faf2ab/97303089022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fontaine-eva.fr/userfiles/files/34041577603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/561cbe12b0979edacf870549f6631ec8/wawepogojenijewuzoret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://standardamulet.com/files/files/46686394268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00e6ebe96b60525a16cb56b66c4e5e60/guvomigaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundezellen.de/neu/userfiles/file/457997143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ac9670c3766b4e2a16b3abba3ccaea8/98070727152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gqc97nci249epd49mgaj9g4on1/21817853407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/78364239868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c1b3cca085b94c7b26ad0286fcf93a3/90989524171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210617120551182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t4mt6f2rfbs9bn1sg9h4h2juq0/76722276218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinxedien.net/upload/files/29236719804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/blj3m48bkhmmi68qbmuhedec51/29618110674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuadienlanhhoaphat.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/zesiwupowebizolaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8f0c02e6b1---55620840329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodfortune.hk/UpLoadFile/file///72488947256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607731ecd168e---lavideroxuramuniratifuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resheto.ru/users_images//fck/file/48247524893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rezidencianestor.sk/app/webroot/files/ckeditor/files/10897505440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumnerclassof1976.com/clients/4/49/49b54eafcc86ae0c30eb104ab8b91c7c/File/rolab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=hyperbole+math%C3%A9matiques+terminale+s+pdfPDF 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_off0000eaa5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAA5 11408 bytes
SHA-256: 5049e87317429e4a7c621250aacb853ee91146b6271477533c0cdbbfac0b5e2b
font_01_sfnt_off00010495.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10495 20900 bytes
SHA-256: c2d7971feec9e3fb6df8c3217fd84bf1b4751689bed1d5c87f201a0aecceb3e0
font_02_sfnt_off00013a0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A0D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1