Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea95854c0c32fb52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-08-20 14:26:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d837f25892e08c39ece5d3868419bb14 SHA-1: 0fa3580ce5738d58146f07f165c3be8b2353e3bd SHA-256: ea95854c0c32fb529583b5de90d252be5b61f2a678e60081000f1533a68df0e0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of external links and the overall heuristic firings strongly indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=derecho+procesal+civil+jose+ovalle+favela+decima+edicion+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b5eaca31a7---ruzigulepipugilitolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--aknmedikal-yub.com/uploads/file/gonisurul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/58695298697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.addvanceo.info/userfiles/files/38584603924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cc9ad639d5---bafipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gegeny.hu/uploads/file/godatewutorogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korean-school.hu/hangul/userfiles/file/jowosisasifoxijozeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m45c6b54uq16heh3dokfa8aldv/begexedivivijivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc8b0cc3a61---pulifegadiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b0e014c55---zonekesivelozogabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sireny.net/share/files/38009862989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nenanhduong.vn/Upload/files/66679879929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moto-trend.cz/public/files/fck/file/voxowamowekipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0957d02963dff7e70bdf891c7470cc4/nepatemijolos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a81b3354f66---5828603063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dfa6dcd6a3---tonudarolilekufinagudet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090026ead125---wuzuzagoxitemap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingbikeonline.com/images/upload/File/mufolibubumogidedidazoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebeautyofdesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59541329173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609800899528d---rajilenigukurexebefexik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://appvid.eus/userfiles/files/bovoradepel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5f4222632fde3d7204217fc96e04782/36720455417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607624f41464f---tusojeruwudamofatixivur.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_off0000cb8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB8D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e39f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE39F 17472 bytes
SHA-256: a58e38b5613d0fd4776a48503f562789b8dbaf02d7d69c2beccd4b606128c3f3
font_02_sfnt_off0001101c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1101C 10984 bytes
SHA-256: c3c35ffca51b7405218c2319ac146a179da3d415bf38207f425f9667c6e62d1c