Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea63c0dd40e8bf6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-09-14 02:25:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e0169745f2bc34d866ab06fd51ef7e81 SHA-1: 52903108a88c57f5ff1274bd0688df478710b7f3 SHA-256: ea63c0dd40e8bf6f1a58971bdcc8d49156bc28524e4248aff2e47b91e673a477
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://tekdalyapi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/16129509319.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://unicon-msk.ru/data/files/76672580959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langmypham.com/luutru/files/39688905932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atya.eu/files/file/tafoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/70289852376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heryeryesil.com/resimlerfiles/webekalobugabok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoset66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/venebijovuzorifevuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feg.vn/uploads/files/98207311026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plaschke-partner.com/uploaded/file/53188259474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nedimgame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/gunafiwomupemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehideawayresortpattaya.com/userfiles/files/xexifaniranenedom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ef27b9579696b945aa56d558e6df2cb/nejuranapufura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaomamma.hu/editor_up/93937866484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otpetye.com/images/shared/file/pavonuluwajedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.totalblissbeauty.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rigelewuvamonarigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elite-nails.pl/Upload/file/xexuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m3hotels.com/userfiles/file/zajudafuzowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greensketch.in/userfiles/file/mikinexededanijazerisamig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargologicru.com/sadm_files/30836573515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3df51d5768310a0530b1a094f4a36e72/81671030810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamennykoberec.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/66465216280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dennismaloney.ca/upload/editor/file/60997091147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161351305cc7c7---kuvekumivagunavotigaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161337a79042f9---lesovepam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e7b65c9fcd---17509201655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ribaczpeter.hu/files/file/78765691331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=aot+mobile+fangame+vo3PDF 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_off0000dfbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFBC 10648 bytes
SHA-256: f6380265b5507f9b50ca475bcceebc5fb3e0444dce0bc7ae85fb6610804eec0c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f82b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF82B 22492 bytes
SHA-256: facdde45573525afc4803e6627c9dc2234119e93af123c65e8edc2b3d88d2066
font_02_sfnt_off0001315e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1315E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1