Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea651c54c4d6b476…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.6 KB Created: 2021-07-25 00:06:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: fa214deb406ca2269bbfcd809b278a2a SHA-1: 4d3b3ed8bc20bec97a04d314f8e013dafcf30bc2 SHA-256: ea651c54c4d6b4769ba3f3f6b6cb8aafcc5a9130c6b25492e304f091a2d16ecf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Several heuristics point to the document being part of a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, with URLs leading to PDF files. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the detection suggest the document is designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9879

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://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1c68067b3e---29339522280.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089fe663016a---milobudanagowub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39d82718d23410b0afce927477138c8a/41569517220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160977aff8bd44---kajoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duda-tech.pl/dudatech/upload/file/lojijeselalux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/govikidovifefironob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5403c92435---25967105565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhihoaiduc.com/uploads/files/98950504066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ip2i23s2imv9l91m30fqh4mqig/tixavurufufofazik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160812da3f1d86---zudawevitotatuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shayangroup.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fdefd99a9167b20cfc4e7d1bc8e8101/xegajezevijevudimaralive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artlabjo.com/userfiles/file/midazona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deesudcoolingtower.com/userfiles/file/jegurosidadewasakusowiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://botroul.be/uploads/99782451626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://norilskgu.ru/userfiles/file/57441168541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a98855585---51513022078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t3akvai65n065dgtr46sc12vfu/25518111274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/lezawiwex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szintai.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60971104567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd7f0ceb21---worobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shethof.ch/cgi-bin/dynamisch/file/62743285840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607562c4616de---54894868198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b018ea66d0---kikoworanereso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d68f0dba7---kabikilunugurenofabuweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da9c23jnji70gjipc3o2pekm64/92758165047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=who+is+the+fat+guy+in+danganronpa+2PDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00014d56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D56 18252 bytes
SHA-256: ee0b92468f31bf63ee92f60795a437e76b659f6a915d7023fcba1058f2448a3f
font_01_sfnt_off00017d3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17D3D 3256 bytes
SHA-256: ab70e8141190ae44310cfbad82e469faaf977283785d9037ab50daf0fa3c7838
font_02_sfnt_off00018a75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18A75 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 084b9b8b44cb4090b7b093388eedc99c5db60c7a7ff9e5fe7a1755a390b7c79a
font_03_sfnt_off0001a417.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A417 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1