Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea6f3b6a3581c80b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-08-16 07:31:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 13200a56ee80de189f363e24dd319a42 SHA-1: be921191c8a8fc60501e622f5a68e3a2d80519dd SHA-256: ea6f3b6a3581c80ba735164020eb53795c06be21a937b4273fdf19b5aa6cd20a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and a machine learning model assigned a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, with numerous external URIs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM firings suggests a deliberate attempt to obscure the final destination of the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 http://menafundinfo.com/userfiles/file/14065880048.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609458c1bd182---3489077913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsck-cykelmotion.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12285268943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atcotourismtravel.com/userfiles/file/tubixokifejuwil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aahsclassof1978.com/clients/b/b6/b6117739535924054831d33ecd54b00a/File/25393881571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moreit.ch/productinfo/file/85723189576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thompsonhigh1980.com/clients/4/48/48b9e10b24f1ac3c627dfd5bb8c45987/File/73521160377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anukulagrotech.com/userfiles/file/musoduremitulat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608251c5491ec---10101996560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altonika.pro/files/fck/file/jizix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1aeed715c4---10709914952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nabsangram.com/userfiles/file/74611226959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ezclasssites.com/var/wwww/dev-ezclasssites-com/data/files/jawavepekaxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fae3ef8f7a1---72488024268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forglass.sk/userfiles/file/91916113572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741e699f352---99552131777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thelewisfamilyreunion.com/clients/c/ce/ce72a6ed4f7059d305e3bbfb121cee90/File/xogabobog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanuyentea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kulazisovafepoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.com/52692283836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5be73ff298551892ce5a09f2d2ae2802/gitodefusalipebop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehonourride.ca/clients/c/c2/c2a221447f3e921143a55eca482c8289/File/61433179326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbhshipyard.com/userfiles/file/13866211412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ba14bc101---57503343442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=frontline+commando+ww2+hack+game+downloadPDF link annotation
    • http://e1pl2.nazwa.pl/busy/fotki/file/jufimakili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf6418481fc---64721537583.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_off0000e81a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE81A 26124 bytes
SHA-256: 3d4a6a2009f77fcc75a58c75df2a3871dca293d096594a2e5aae962c3cc05c9e
font_01_sfnt_off000123c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013bd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BD9 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 6d713e669c6c09c500e002ce2104c32a6890cabd62c4b63e773253c58bd091fb