Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea7a356547d45a39…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-08-22 01:51:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ac2c6f46e54067ac530950ce912dc9f4 SHA-1: b6b16118cecdcf896053d1fe2add5176133cf5e6 SHA-256: ea7a356547d45a39a1b53c3c0ef261f4623736b147b5dc935d8a41a960ce01b2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a likely attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the rationale is based on the URL heuristics and AV detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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 http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611998eb73cfc---89681036518.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ideatity.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98771960123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guojingmall.com/userfiles/file///bujolaxomobimolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilmatbasim.com/userfiles/file/36663669329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrabbancapital.com/file/files/26001425005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rc5fuagodjb5s68rd23lek8gc4/lesuzanukopiluxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiaciran.org/cache/fck_files/file/sogunosap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robbinsfamilyhealthcare.com/clients/2/2c/2c787fa606fc56c3a3a24dfc5409695f/File/subagawufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c4ae199305---pewoxetebotopejilewedadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76d4f9c61f3fc254e94187f8adce944e/56272185228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pune-india.info/userfiles/file/pegizewejexugajiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spreewaldatelier.de/img/editor/file/nididerovofunabuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eac204063f54d64abfe2bfc6b24b7896/zorusaveda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwlargo.com/uploads/files/80945317665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a4ibqfko5k5tuhqcjb0q5vo5b/31010491945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsegypt.com/file/44704608701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb25810d756---99091722593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4afc549cc7530b7f35ad79bcd92564a2/lizetitetaxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--spreewaldpension-lbben-9lc.de/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/41922864832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-castiglioni.com/userfiles/files/rifefatotubigalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5680b997f5---xubegofajov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aluminiosarla.com/userfiles_arla/files/zesitobokolelonew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capital96.com/userfiles/file/42448517525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=material+didactico+de+matematicas+para+segundo+grado+de+primaria+para+imprimirPDF 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_off0000d4ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4FF 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 333a95cb8bd50b9066209050bb696ee4bfd6e9ea03797d0bc5d05636516f3eab
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE25 18320 bytes
SHA-256: 92f648c7185d50411263cb40998c92f3eba085dc992a8438050f50c59fb284a7
font_02_sfnt_off00011abe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ABE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1