Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea96365ddb55a121…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.7 KB Created: 2021-09-16 04:48:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 31c9d2cc5352497fcffa49bfdcb1b24f SHA-1: 9309c08ed02ce2c7f126b6d328da8fe782ecac67 SHA-256: ea96365ddb55a121e72af5cf68227d703fd2d69716b96119567864e20eaa9214
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, utilizing an image-based design with embedded clickable links. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior strongly suggest an intent to exploit users via social engineering and potentially deliver further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d75ec541a6---97569945574.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://oreoltour.ru/sites/default/files/file/69206364326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsradviseurs.nl/mailing/images/photo/file/zanawirigeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65it9ju6dvarbks75feqkrdl71/99312907766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/103833ae0659e8e308d8fbb0a7f7fc21/gutevesamasuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161426d60247a6---90046025161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duocthientam.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/56338143300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elateridae.com/images/FCKeditor/file/84220171300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polnische-zaune.de/userfiles/file/tadakezan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser123.com/geektic/files/9074167685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delphin-bau.com/ckfinder/upload/files/bafuziterebeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plymouth-logs.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63526822354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odpadykj.cz/UserFiles/File/29595806639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pradakshinam.com/fck_uploads/file/99841938714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tipresentoio.it/images/file/34847522039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albertopizzetti.it/userfiles/files/zawosadotikenakolifafagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kk8shkdtfpi1fh77bgittc0vpf/lokelavaxurot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136645200b37---33488945471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abcoegypt.com/userfiles/files/rowetokedikopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://china-glass-mosaic.vegner.com/userfiles/files/20210910_144528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockycheng.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puvazalokisetumisopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saikekanglun.com/filespath/files/20210908034734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dac3a3ea11---zixokug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.extramas.com/userfiles/files/betilidekapinuvax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foodvellythailand.com/upload/files/wagaxoruti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=amino+acid+aggPDF 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_off0000b3b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3B2 13796 bytes
SHA-256: dbb9966269f27a6c1b3ff8ea86c7dcf7542373c02c2d3165ed2601033d47acf0
font_01_sfnt_off0000d572.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD572 10148 bytes
SHA-256: f3ee0f0336d4b8fc8700420ec9bc2034056b867bd533bd9d2543336af7461bd4
font_02_sfnt_off0000ebd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1