Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea741a189a0faa07…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.0 KB Created: 2021-07-01 15:43:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 641e83ac22e786f9d2fdca8e7600a933 SHA-1: 91ccac4484a7128c86252fd64a67d971f311974d SHA-256: ea741a189a0faa07f9a737978e3a9d08f732a045549172b953fb60955d848a7a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, directing users to numerous external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to phish or distribute further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or redirection campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9756

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 https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bp7ed048psk2c4cfc5e5reigt2/36852013227.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://qca.ch/userfiles/file/22975231198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ad76a848be---risozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/31863197414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloverpark1961.com/clients/6/6a/6a73a08bb68f643008adb5efbbb44e43/File/suzopudiselowowazabumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4b07e5421e---87606019703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kraftyz.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zobimidikalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084c003c8144---mumijusoxurobigumasana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/873991e0fe89efcbd4250ddb0c248d78/savaxipukaneraregimafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wernersuarez.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/15020774770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gls5579t9kts64jle3c27hkgs1/maliguwogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0953e7379b---61977541152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8262bed34---30320879100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bef9f958a19---66037141701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090b646f0424---24925482704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf789d938d---wobid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f9de8219dd---dofiwaxamufowuninudupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f8a58a373---magumibinumuzozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giftboxvietthuy.com/upload/ck/files/5734673032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundryindia.org/userfiles/file/bepexaduwexilobafas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37bf72e701f2c338b86f3b606f32d9d7/45707227161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa6873867d423afb1ed8133d6ef38f20/tukivafevadebog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liburnia.pl/userfiles/file/ninixegepagusabeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b57a43824495814f5bc0d12074301bb3/pinafufemafaveduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/difexezifat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=to+recuse+oneselfPDF 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_006_off00018026.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x18026 18328 bytes
SHA-256: d9f5e66163d907df9b2c2f031b8906ab183602eda4757f3e8ef428a9cf922d60
font_00_sfnt_off00010a89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A89 10040 bytes
SHA-256: 0057f74ec3f0a78125ca50da6dc41b417bf598a14c4743420789e3de34c854aa
font_01_sfnt_off000120fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120FE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001390b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1390B 3464 bytes
SHA-256: a8161c2f5ba9235eb51b4fcc43b6bb219725019365cb8d38f9ec25dfe5ce54ff
font_03_sfnt_off00014686.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14686 23188 bytes
SHA-256: 91954b1aa538df0b5d767536f2dc25e5083b380571492a98f672a323f5f8b341