Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea70318de13b0419…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 10:45:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 369d52915600b91403e77756dbe79953 SHA-1: 3ddc9ccb27ae91f41bb497feb4fcf63ee53e7248 SHA-256: ea70318de13b04196c99d5f8ff042fafc1efadd6db06d2f5c0ba9ddb47d01fd9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The embedded URLs are likely used to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=central+venous+pressure+monitoring+for+nurses+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://skisun.it/userfiles/files/94113414917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b921e081b---kumaputewudamufeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d5fb63dd8---77777475191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a778447970770ba3da0ba8e84bfc116a/detugodinasafozid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tipresentoio.it/images/file/kojabuzimojupuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f14725eb534cd6b8aaa8baa4c347920/14763289724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malopolskiszlakwinny.pl/upload/File/xigupim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuclubcr.com/campannas/file/53500583815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klcmekatronik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sumelibofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tate79.com/clients/868750/File/nenujegalafogodikela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busangh.com/attfile/fckimg/file///20210606165756_593556380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wallsfamilyreunion.com/clients/876683/File/dixemez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rv5f45qcvrmoi496a9vuihqtp4/43921672153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mu-rrrc.com/userfiles/file/18441046721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anaksemut.com/contents//files/53010273816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/40670916106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/depusemutiganoxaxuwojat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vv-alc.nl/uploads/files/benosimotujejilijosexuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8096736f25debec1a6c0b874803135d2/zabimufijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bijverhoeven.nl/uploads/files/56798470269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fields-on-earth.com/923613857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st-johnson.com/Uploadfiles/files/mitebore.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_off0000b5d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5D2 15624 bytes
SHA-256: 1099f1d0ef7563fe739f0b8b9a7a95e3282e4cd39238238c3e457c88b7932f9d
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD9C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f5b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5B3 11036 bytes
SHA-256: 64890163a86b7f5fd221c6f44e8746e2ff34f743cc9468684bb559dbee6c0266