Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea98c1c891073e3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.9 KB Created: 2021-07-19 14:41:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 6af5c7b525ee2c2dba3a896aab3eecc3 SHA-1: f25956690cfbcaf5dc521692f12da01c0dcb89b7 SHA-256: ea98c1c891073e3a820e26fbf54d25834e8ab0eb92a133cdfe59c3463cf145c0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://czerwoneiczarne.pl/files/file/nobikobino.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d72f6752fdb3a3b40ab1e9c3ffbfea61/27517879943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anfauglir.com/images/file/puvovixotagilesiwazodafes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608344da8b9f3---pesokoxawun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blugarden.eu/file/rexuwuvitibugiputinupul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fda1da6fd0ad7f5c0284b630bbd175e2/18254827331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a9ce10ef16---xiduvovosibajipezuliwal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thelonerangerfanclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/memuxojezajifiwatizanani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watthaistuttgart.de/userfiles/file/wisurem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0651jfsfsu5l8fdnsha8i10ish/76100734492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33add7d18a1829d237383d15f8574dc4/gafokolonusogiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arredamentoambienti.it/img/file/31533257823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4c44620be6---kiwajimilazaxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piemonteforyou.it/userfiles/file/14310081925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/425f489c8e8547b79f8a6ab29e41fbb0/40392680857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a95be679a---gegajukurapuwusenemegadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c89277dee33---zoxiruderowesuveganiwezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bfa0920f79---84957601456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l3d65svh6ibu6311k8n2g2qi83/15947971453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859a2eb2ab9---93496907539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160707901f0985---67670745261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b89dc60f509---kafotokewepugiler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klairtransport.com/uploads/files/rarebowomidukopiwotilel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jhgnlusjvgdpu6scul97r9sjhm/23981966080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=draw+the+internal+architecture+of+8085+microprocessorPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f236.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF236 16120 bytes
SHA-256: 79780693078d8f7928981a269369654b0ed7f3e05703440a4e7b9c318751f9ce
font_01_sfnt_off000107a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107A4 11396 bytes
SHA-256: 48e20cb95adccf1f52e8b1d77719935a3cd8693914a3d68c94e1a5de19613538
font_02_sfnt_off0001226a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1226A 16520 bytes
SHA-256: a8448dd8472625236df4d1759a6ca4a33c090a76e02bc18eae795da84eb582c0
font_03_sfnt_off00014d60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D60 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1