Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea9bafbc0baaf512…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-09-25 04:25:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 92cb7233a64b468bc35a4536631fb941 SHA-1: 7a166b926bb5cb41b1d1544200592e8e7e90f41a SHA-256: ea9bafbc0baaf5124326d4c335a01d8557323c5a035992bd2d5056b5b0f9fbae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests the document is designed to artificially boost search engine rankings or distribute links across various domains, a common tactic for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://brilliantsolarpaneling.com/userfiles/file/kufirakurolulubosadu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ciarajewellery.com/editor_upload/file/podot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowlingkillers.com/imgdb/files/81582569294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wonderful-foods.net/userfiles/file/4243525758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thelonerangerfanclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kesatifovinarupemofoketu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printjet.pl/pliki_user/File/luturokisowotufagisewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3krd5asc87s9clt42s0aj4fojo/93125014431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135e92282d34---ziwumosemubegejetoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://targhevaticane.it/userfiles/files/73363076281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/33534011206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-uklid.com/files/file/porinitip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleiuri.ro/userfiles/file/42885426149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n9auvsusdg4onr7k8f2jvp1akn/57775611316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90afqerdlt1f.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98572169357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capecoralliving.com/media/file/82774113509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izhar-energy.com/userfiles/file/39773868255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catbasailing.com/upload/fck/file/62936623196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campfun.myhost888.com/upload/ckeditor/files/bepaxekowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0048.pl/48files/file/5899154408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longvu.vn/Images_upload/files/71288738478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5648c1fe6bfbecd29533f7a7f10f2c04/magitaxipezawivoxivowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melly-incendie.fr/img_db/47786808764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=all+fortnite+chapter+2+season+3+skinsPDF 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_off0000b03c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB03C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c84e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC84E 14700 bytes
SHA-256: 05b3e9490e7482f62ee4646c82729cf0fed4228c1f2cebf3cd519229195f391b
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED31 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 81648059c74af5620f5e15eb2e9ba83aae6f643745fbaba27e26a3b84221ed08