Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea78c8b31a7fe92e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 23:05:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 638b2260485a10e0757e5f720bfa5e67 SHA-1: 423fb1c5f7cb93d73506e44dcb61b47b6f08aec7 SHA-256: ea78c8b31a7fe92e9b91201813aae8996869ded2ccab782ea759fec9f27200e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Numerous heuristics indicate the PDF functions as a link farm, pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs, such as https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=enb311+stress+analysis+pdf and http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb486cc6e3---doxixumaropiju.pdf, are the primary indicators of this malicious redirection behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=enb311+stress+analysis+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f7pb364ellut9sqgm7ldu88f3/tesawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohappy.org/userData/board/file/zogulimezoferod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semagro-msw.ru/pics/images/file/53600138970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mediaworld.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rapepururuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb486cc6e3---doxixumaropiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/45715751832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenvision.vn/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/putapeduledijex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kistours.hu/userfiles/file/86337536504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelsafeway.com/userfiles/file/5647377797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitolmetrophysicaltherapy.com/files/files/kedisisigaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161290c5e93ccc---vuwufuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be737365efe---pomudidojelelafafujij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.masozilina.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16877593113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkhigh65.com/clients/4970/File/29059589132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khodahoanglang.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/66950494456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cyklo-wellness-penzion-palice.cz/content/84794227403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gps-ambroisie.com/ressource/site-image/files/32941291282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3bb3ae2261---zezogiresutadikapipaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://distributoram.com/files/file/runekenopoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lorofilmes.com/Uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kekatowatevazefawilabama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abe-rdc.com/userfiles/file/86784101089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okna-kursk.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/govijiloronopalosegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e6aa72b93d13c106a480345289bec22/51151890754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3e08c97fc8---4878157868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c28eac28d7f---2302262209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39aad0bff25e1a27ef5ea9e84595c9f8/68568759831.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_off0000f636.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF636 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010e4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E4D 10832 bytes
SHA-256: f80d12c58d708aa95c77a31ec696439e8553d3e78716ead5de005ed2780c862f
font_02_sfnt_off00012741.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12741 17732 bytes
SHA-256: 3a9d4438e0c4af2be81fbefc3dc6206f3d40998983b87d0eb2179d5a6f05e481