Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea61805340d660fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 04:48:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 2967b6e23470aded9f32f552d70cd970 SHA-1: daed58c39114bb2500f114027d93d6d7fd221ca2 SHA-256: ea61805340d660fb5f03196447b34a83de91833c63e7e54059fe4027040dc155
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the URL structure and heuristic firings are sufficient for this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=family+worksheets+for+esl+students PDF link annotation
    • https://mbzgogo.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/dixijoxigesomugofamerugiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiuanai.com/userfiles/file/xivojab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/53772327993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serenetour.com/image/upload/File/3203725800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lynhuagiasi.com/Images_upload/files/xuweluvuneruvijabija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasdeu.md/data/userfiles/files/94157085824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reutlinger.pl/userfiles/file/larow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiddeefire.com/media/userfiles/files/ramidinirezulifezesiziwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dramayaramendes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8bec96d64---48849913334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bac4dc69ee---bigupezulafijufax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pm-ural.com/uploads/files/95388045042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bona-agra.pl/Upload/file/fomubapewawim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/76478442025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/205b5c9cf3638fbbbc9d58e5c8b133d1/86877922124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipceurope.com/assets/file/jemixakurapeziwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichtantai.com/files/uploaded/files/giturak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/72928958867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnik.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zixurireboxejepexasifat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136176682c25---mowajebapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chatfieldfarms101.com/userimages/56056597916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/fuzemedanububuvubuxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosite.ru/images/news/file/71323766548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://used-machinetools.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/roxeraxenamonovejojoxuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonebreaker.at/zubadubesusomejosalito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loca-granderoue-montaletang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33184156074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-pasz.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nedisimigikizinipikewovu.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_off0000e072.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE072 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f889.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF889 10988 bytes
SHA-256: fbb7136e86ca1ee8ed770c4e5d54576e5d616f2d95cdbe710ce92f511c0dae1a
font_02_sfnt_off000111e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111E6 17964 bytes
SHA-256: 5e35a3bd5e4f0d37f30c642f401f95db25ad7c096855168f5d51746382b951f9