Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea92b07a779462e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-06-25 12:22:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 0d063009153973bf7e34fc784bf57802 SHA-1: 624dbf08851c70bcaa565f3e9c5727fbf4713dc6 SHA-256: ea92b07a779462e791e450188b735806b9dddd58930b39ac89b0613fbceb821c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV heuristic strongly indicate this PDF is malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. The document functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external sites, some of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of external URI links and the nature of the detected threat align with spearphishing tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://susta.vn/userfiles/file/rabogapilajuvijodegilofol.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ithaca1962.com/clients/41687/File/jugigopexoxixugugemugajil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://embassyinvietnam.com/webroot/img/files/vafexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raiders71.com/clients/4/41/4134020f2f298c111575624a380fabfc/File/32436885329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/817988346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a696d8d5e4b5d2170b53da2ae0fd297/931171662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beateromer.com/bilder/file/xuzosetumigofaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/jomimerolaravumuvezoxebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riolospettacoli.it/filesUploads/file/kavufujizuxejikekogek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11d0b33f4e342683c7b4a0a89c3866fd/74552972074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097390d08b10---75874966287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0l4ajoq3347e0m317ta8atqc17/tabitavuwozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/562a938c5f16801a05b66f7ec6f10cdd/gazokosirezifuzifixefeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d927030b2f---46677866027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dakotaterritorydevelopment.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51459289558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ed508617c---sedilerejutuneniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/wujavekokete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=glossary+of+poetic+terms+pdfPDF 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_off0000e53f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE53F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD51 15524 bytes
SHA-256: 5ff3a84d3805f63cbaead843ef8555c5e6c95b1fd755ab947dbdce0396b660f2
font_02_sfnt_off00012527.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12527 10828 bytes
SHA-256: beb4132bcb518aff46f86fb8978b0652df717e59029cb9bd95a3151147601d41