Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea5817ec3ced50a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-06-29 21:48:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d7550f7cb73d5eb8583e18482e7d4016 SHA-1: 2d3008dc2860652941472719c2bc5156790cd6d3 SHA-256: ea5817ec3ced50a1cc219f9bc03651bbacabda36faf2ddbc958c9a0c415b1ea9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely intended to lure users to phishing pages or download further malware. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the detected heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=types+of+beaks+of+birds+for+class+3
    • http://www.aportecnica.com/imagenes/editor/file/19404161848.pdf
    • http://fruitvita.com/files/files/20732114758.pdf
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nmt1ff66cpprg081gd53tsahm0/xageniwuwajibivuvilatujo.pdf
    • http://ibiforstarlight.ca/clients/3/3c/3cfcca4e360ca8807b7dd7d6e7cbeae0/File/nexezorebe.pdf
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba969eb3de---97826406687.pdf
    • http://classicalgardenfountains.com/uplds/file/36295498584.pdf
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b2a7215387---mekepapi.pdf
    • https://whiteelephant.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93b1997a93fb3ac581c69d7e23f53ff2/68050092776.pdf
    • http://silverleafspa.ca/clients/10619/File/lemutonudiw.pdf
    • http://bukharaalpharetta.com/sites/default/files/file/sijusinanitebubezejero.pdf
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a09e51e8020---14221865130.pdf
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2abb758af9edf2cc475154fbab0489d/96823202111.pdf
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40a844956037905b3b9cd3487f434464/85598779066.pdf
    • http://cnc-soustruzeni.cz/files/file/viwimugenusijufad.pdf
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca9200cfd4f0e8e95c63c8a18809f363/fobopajexodiworemapud.pdf
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3f26448d59---sufenobigiwim.pdf
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab055b478a4---65676907271.pdf
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/sepewewejonuw.pdf
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160910d90af122---benimosemipepapit.pdf
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/talakemexopupotiman.pdf
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q9motfockl0vgsukq606681eqt/15074253166.pdf
    • https://allmassage.net/upload/file/20210510234523.pdf
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080be2196a85---vidijodazekatefiwu.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f31c.bin
331cc8866262647fbb548c379f2e29c401958ada4fb646842ff906f328826e20
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF31C 10892 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010c45.bin
512934c9e627803dbb10ed9e60154c8bf14d15e04c8181a14b56bb51ac7827d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C45 16964 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000138b8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138B8 16792 bytes