Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea8fc529952b7beb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 19:08:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 83a2c9a44d03ea2689547c301a052fc9 SHA-1: a485ddcf85cc759a87563ee737e5b33d256869f1 SHA-256: ea8fc529952b7beb507adc339071d92fc09e70442282de264ed18eacabc8fb43
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URLs points to an attempt to lead the user to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lectura+musical+para+piano+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://villkasz.hu/editor_up/91462764554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t0vq0kijnluc7s5pl3g8bakbj0/pipidedobadamazutofawuzam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1501663b96d5e83f2db7d76d45d9000/86455849656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abimobiliare.pl/pliki/File/66493900151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/toh61iuha2s5gog4jn66juhh8f/22366047214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://club-integra.ru/userfiles/file/58934125267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://99shayari.in/userfiles/files/68009511734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuacuonbentre.com/upload/files/nokirikurefirizituxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac7d4334661---pumiwilatevinarugali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christmaslandint.com/userfiles/87847883893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patanamachine.com/imgUpload/files/jabufikusepefomubidunuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a83860da19---46946024699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazosilikatnn.ru/uploads/files/73975702923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.greddy.com/admin/common/ckfinder/userfiles/File/winidonopomexoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a208e2d93f313b240d00efd17c8f8582/52300416297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1cc488c59d---dabobakope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantcontinuity.com/membership/data//files/97761872062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dca8b37d237f12092777045c1546855f/xiguxiniba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/59678034972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2b0d5cb92d---zakidutixemufuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitours.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76379503636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deltagroup.bg/uploads/file/tajujepivenawutuxatiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/23573621622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moon-villa123.com/CKEdit/upload/files/kilirosej.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_off0000e1ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1CE 18488 bytes
SHA-256: 0ac482d63d87f52dc20e57801decc9a1323f81c371a6601c129bd45e0eab2354
font_01_sfnt_off000110fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110FA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012911.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12911 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 330e7058f03560c2f996da617e01fb02afa3467aea6cdacf28749ab79471410f