Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea75a0c24ab2b803…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-07-08 12:53:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e682cfbf3f4bc37b6f45f7e833f573da SHA-1: b9b0f06fa813b729ee4870948a5f9d10a84abda5 SHA-256: ea75a0c24ab2b803e4c76a1e9e7352fb8e6a34a59288c557c2742f6ca2c95ed2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document's structure as a link farm, combined with the compromised hosting, points towards an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=iaslc+staging+manual+in+thoracic+oncology PDF link annotation
    • http://contactconfiance.com/files/files/bizodirojifanifebupobif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3197d29381d9ce9a5cee0c3e0e773d27/72971447511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poiskvod.ru/images/file/ninuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5nvj0kg1p3ugrd6v18j9mnl0g6/pofeduzod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba12a78d91f---75326806095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52eb3a434b7822236c6f3146dff27625/37144683038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smcertificationservices.com/userfiles/files/10193392717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-yoga.org/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210507023019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de91709951c---jolimimipikibomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160702e6e0aaf4---zametekabilogegodiviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b486fa1b193---86603028589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4b045ee55d007f4a522773a3093c1e9/jemedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abf84f83123---4146927575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stjohnhomelessshelter.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8b2cfb628f8e4dfd5e23447ac48683a/xepavogebifedifogivas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diclenakliyat.com/userfiles/file/kosabeditafunaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a95464e4260859956e3ec13463adef3/55272585721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160924319e6ce7---44247790638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jokerprod.net/userfiles/file/18231893066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091c215e90ee---wobukutisuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thamdinhgiadaiquang.com/img/files/wuwejen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83sp4qb8ujd0l9830202ch6ulm/rejuguva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/zepitezawoxotegemaxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gabaa786b5s5h02ukbs8kcero9/95623910329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987f526fc81---54561006252.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_off0000e9d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9D1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000101e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101E8 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 876d4c38727f015e47d96cab92675c47eb3e5f6b9f82f4495629a7854f761c86
font_02_sfnt_off00011a4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A4C 16796 bytes
SHA-256: f444857bca84d0ea961c541759de715589529c5deab115f18fad393e5c44625a