Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea722a60a2b91452…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 00:59:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 323cce73237eb60ea3e5374aba1dc034 SHA-1: 72e222eef31c0fffa3988dff1df2ec4008e2bce1 SHA-256: ea722a60a2b91452a87c4881cc383cee1d76ed9084051b0368a9abdda33dc5a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme to deliver malicious content. The PDF structure itself appears to be a lure, with the embedded content being unreadable and likely obfuscated.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d35f35cc1---sezofeg.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ead29008a---zopewinelinaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cefd0c1b0a5---34563416649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gccde.com/downloads/blog/geust/files/majumamumunijijaromiwalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25988a0fafeb77da58d5b520a6943dd1/41299132457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insureacompany.com/userfiles/file/tipokiwipimujoxemavow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fototipia.hu/files/files/pebotemefajasonekewiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hmj0ubbafj51430ek6enk5oui1/jalolapejub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajakedua.com/contents//files/6559466581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ab6b728a7---88430829922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lescourailleurs.com/upload/editor/file/lulaturojib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokebarslo.com/uploads/files/77605954639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c746d72995---wagaposo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przedszkolenisko.pl/userfiles/file/bamen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gourmethousemacau.com/UploadFilesfile///gofodixojupexitel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dailyhondaotomientay.com/upload/files/xojuvepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turnyras.lt/Files/file/50944073397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/86471831591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4994sa13dtei8vjpqs2uehmpct/96042760386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/722378f9b392b189b8b244b99ae413e1/45893317688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexnepaltravel.com/userfiles/file/gadusikawezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3732618c8e---48789285035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmckno2010.zkosuchdol.info/files/ririp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismofattorialucciano.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jeliwibavodotuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa40d9e9004---zanutekovoluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=anatomy+of+human+body+bones+pdfPDF 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_off0000d514.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD514 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED26 17524 bytes
SHA-256: a7f3be82977eebc1615292e69b30fbc99223be33a012a4ac0740a0b771566a30
font_02_sfnt_off00011a55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A55 10860 bytes
SHA-256: c937abad8e9befc7678cd2b7d5c8af26de4f4c1bf3c4e9b57d65bb466125859b

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