Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea720972c1078b53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-09-25 00:49:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 24bd47e7fc28811108139cd0b4ed330c SHA-1: f7f38feff291503f15b70e1ecfaac79d5cbf96a0 SHA-256: ea720972c1078b53c3c4be75863b7155608199331cc0b698cf6cf8da9034676c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file containing embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code. The presence of numerous external URIs, including links to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicates a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or redirection lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://www.idukkidiocese.org/files/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28124777442.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dkind.net/userData/board/file/33823064298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://falconshipping-uae.com/userfiles/files/56384877079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electric-kernbichler.at/84766537710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161410ee1e3fa4---xewurusibat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perksys.com/userfiles/file/majuxujuwanexakafewapig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haciendaloscipreses.cl/upload/file/10315287038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdtr.mdrap.ro/fckeditor/uploads/file/489324042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140fbef234ea---dotegodisiruxeruloxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epoch-making.jp/js/upload/files/83708691372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcremich.lu/files/files/71852645570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77b9ce52f326e21e99ecf2eb5fe25ee6/xexuwomojup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://colegiumaniucarei.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42620244570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gegeny.hu/uploads/file/42611432676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limblength-sldf.com/userfiles/file/84829005377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarchoggianiepartners.it/userfiles/files/14975781767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khabul.mn/mmpa/userfiles/files/31941331641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://losaltos.com/wysiwygfiles/file/tobugibofobitimijot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614007bc7a637---81221681026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cca3c48a99---doresolumutoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://360global.ca/userfiles/file/satajap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elhammagazine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90642578551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614336b4a8a8d---juneboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://posetili.ru/userfiles/file/pilivoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sacoorhealth.pt/site/upload/file/89520030456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=audio+evolution+apkPDF 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_off0000b2ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2AB 10356 bytes
SHA-256: dd3c9e863aff262034d3c7aa8b2db8a4bdb0e49baf2d96e64530d564f5bf0ba2
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA2E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e240.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE240 17172 bytes
SHA-256: e80780e2c9d0f657600010ed88a28f71538fb52f5f11c6a9df6e8bbf43c7f8d2