Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea5ae7357c836e16…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-08 07:44:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a249c84888b35c148826fac4f8fdb06d SHA-1: fe67a42dacf101905248dd297fbf04257e8830a8 SHA-256: ea5ae7357c836e164baedb5cc754329113b319e48a9d6646dec0911233779cac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing or trojan PDF. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports a malicious purpose, likely to distribute further payloads or conduct phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b57085108---namari.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nnt52.ru/userfiles/file/68520651358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/31567458993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpgny.com/userfiles/files/6285513302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alicekhenrylawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/23621319561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.com/contents//files/85933660264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markone-tools.com/upload/files/19267917487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mystruggle.uk/indigo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gajaroxiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsp-oblspl.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23961592016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanquinoafamily.com/shopadmin/upload/files/lazuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccforum.kr/uploads/file/1621867632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecnoservizi.com/userfiles/files/garobekexinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27a092af802e60d588ca57c61de37a5b/bilosiwurelanebapedaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sro52.ru/uploads/files/41331106516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b603b21943e42130b1fa1a614114701/77522616576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609633c7714f5---50998411427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a69f7ed8e---kojifiteso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3be2815dc05060cc8dcb915b51213d64/feboropunulojojifafurokuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720427bfc2c---kixuxuzevuzapunabexukef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jscorporation.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093fb51279c3---nevapiwalawufisabes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekselantechnology.solutions/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54570800366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b7076a0918---83418941498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11md7egir3v52u6pug30tkr29k/7651451249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/32324134540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=android+base64+decode+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_off0000d22b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD22B 10836 bytes
SHA-256: af199498b2a9bacf5765c66621ab809c115e093e29067fdd8a4e9bdd26f6cb6c
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB20 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010332.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10332 17396 bytes
SHA-256: 7b11a084cf06eb24f2dc0df47940c5743c30cc601042e3d054c48a46ac3cc9cc