Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea96c80bb94c4fd4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-20 09:01:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 7af49f0a30d16a1ed0e186d757bf0e0b SHA-1: ca971c6a6c3dbf8b85d884b02812986c86cc99b9 SHA-256: ea96c80bb94c4fd4989b37c502e80d67f2dcd44861ff5e5e410de6512f2edeec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are identified as compromised CMS uploads or hosted on disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The file's structure as a link farm suggests an attempt to obscure the final destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://atol-res.pl/uploads/file/wajozedufafog.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kuehllawpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/86416474838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anapharmata.hu/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/17403657304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladyvenus.it/userfiles/files/sodatuvakupuputene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butyfarm.mm520.net/userfiles/files/91644636492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jainfarms.com/uploads/38686819826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsse.hssanesteban.cl/files/17060377318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xanbiente.de/userfiles/file/xotawara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eguiders.com/uploads/fixemalipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohdiabo.net/images/ckeditor/files/niwububorososevunobodorof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144e7de6936a---50446874602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yingzhaoliuart.com/upload/file/48806925125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptindia.com/newsimages/file///70217819682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pirkitpadangas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31476239238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143c384d8abf---kemuxegesavuverujim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2ctrading.org/cms_upload/files/pojukuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorsoftexas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/uploads/rerewevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recit-de-vie.fr/userfiles/file/42153775678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.huntsvillepr.com/files/files/dudokinoxatonegagot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helder-effect.nl/userfiles/file/dujasigokoliruganek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosewoodcity.org/nbloom/fckuploads/file/sexenovakajokige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161304fcfeba0c---wikeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aznamaste.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/powuborupebasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ky-auto.com/uploadfile/files/boxufozasusiwoxowivepuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrick-vallot.com/upload/files/favapujinavazodiwoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=calories+in+one+avocadoPDF 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_off0000d787.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD787 17304 bytes
SHA-256: 0e8b1ccc5f7ffc1434a7ff816c347f81575754c4458a7783d7da4b3a2a09cfec
font_01_sfnt_off0001041e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1041E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C35 10364 bytes
SHA-256: c87a1391c0c79b9b55cfbd8aced3d40aa86cfebb41a1edaef880adb7c65d27a4

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