Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea5d2f2eb347a4d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 12:44:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8f318fabec0a21127a1bc163897fca53 SHA-1: 0ca29e54acc29e8f87073058f6b7f564f147897d SHA-256: ea5d2f2eb347a4d9cd36ea5244c0c6cc4596f18988a8bd5f8c398f0bd1eaa9b8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely as part of a spearphishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hypersomnia+treatment+at+home PDF link annotation
    • http://zamokugrofa.sk/admin/fckeditor/file/nilibejulibokuzaniku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosg.net/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210822120054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vinoplaza.nl/img/upload/files/53086129788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/funomel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jatechkj.pl/upload/fck/file/bapirujadositazujoruji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntiverification.com/userfiles/file/laserelusegafazofoxiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1544112ef7---83272159060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regiefranchet.fr/userfiles/files/mevaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rugsinc.in/UserFiles/files/4174063994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://office-agglo-larochelle.fr/userfiles/file/8928030554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trvstore.com/userfiles/file/35055062999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d45a71e096c21f9da54a1f1868843f7a/87792793080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cartolmania.it/file/59441687873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb0d0b24352---fireburijirarelas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efuegypt.org/userfiles/file/41156013957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3db18af6d4---golaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrayamed.com/userfiles/file/89019011854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7143e91a0a---rivev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhphucvietnam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/27755073597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b3f53edc2f---21200472538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dblbtech.com/userfiles/file/89711282740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auditorescr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tabozev.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_off0000bceb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCEB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d502.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD502 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 8c5fa90714795fdb75402a210ddd944cf14cc16f9cdde97a5731d8abd0290845
font_02_sfnt_off0000ecee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECEE 16096 bytes
SHA-256: a89f2cd7900860850c470c0b4ae618b7f964448cc7a577530f92d4c79c86165e