Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea59e3ab671d16bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 08:42:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4806f12fd250a11c72a50c056f2ee12d SHA-1: 4da2c2196115ca0fdf195f576ef77bd970abafe2 SHA-256: ea59e3ab671d16bb4628d1db26fb24ef2db11a378d4bdcb24117cf7fa1dc17a6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Numerous embedded URLs point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+principle+of+competitive+exclusion PDF link annotation
    • http://tinnaduraflex.com/uploads/files/nosuvogudizepuxugasavem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://millecolori.it/images/file/petunogexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c45c0217b8433f145509ef716e8aa2c/morelizugijuwivisoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotaquangninh.org/data/dulieu/files/11141450339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/fujepome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dagmar-e.de/userfiles/file/57193758761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tznjl.com/userfiles/files/kuruma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddc-touggourt.dz/ar/files/29477669797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donateagift.eu/userfiles/file/kinaketuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salvamontbihor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/wavigunudevego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfef75bbec9c4512e63f4df8af9a55c4/40032899418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b987445a6891d81f28bf776f43979e9/27551293960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waypl.pl/upload/File/zewabubezepakakoluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maryalo.com/userData/board/file/19767498158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d987a7a4ef2---62026653062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11a51d5adcad4b6a4e0b8d085945a80d/53009729670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harmony-lazienka.pl/Upload/file/42217200773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bighost.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/niwijef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1agjlwjc3g.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dezomekose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirutte.com/newsfiles/files/56040848430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://regimhotelierbucuresti.com/images/userfiles/41680224060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportsclinicwest.ie/media/contents/file/60052589641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://websurin.net/UserFiles/File/17256024408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d5bcf6df15---lulerafejuneraxaxuf.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_off0000f595.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF595 17948 bytes
SHA-256: 1bac70e033fb79ad1913eac1467ef07f649eccf2087d86eb690dc004a9b40a85
font_01_sfnt_off00012460.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12460 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 92ba0b88d3e6f25c6403545bd65840765808f86ef9964a84ee9e9892d05a8565
font_02_sfnt_off00013d2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D2C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1