Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea9c4b03bfb65f2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-08-23 13:03:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 43a6f57a5b37af57e278d6f675bd2342 SHA-1: acfd11d803c7fe5b42f7d62c1b2f2afaf4d2dbcf SHA-256: ea9c4b03bfb65f2c3ae8947c8878d2ac3118328e6d76f84bce553925158b5a2d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with exploitation for client execution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=purple+and+green+go+together PDF link annotation
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160808c6177fda---zinobeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dereunfh7j46e2r9l6usp5t5q6/77493859625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubietelbar.hu/uploadfile/wopuwukikiwuralonaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pantanalmsnews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/difomokesukagenilodusina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolupin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/44887192204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divorcefinance.nl/uploads//file/47363808336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fourseasons.events/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aec30a67af6173c6e28ccd483c655c16/59180227194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4c6b92e60---4251396835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenthelong.net/userfiles/files/2218701780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faradtvandor.hu/picture/userfiles/file/75652893032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://business-plan-capalpha.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/77647608840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amajyuku.com/files/files/konuxuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilygrilltogo.com/uploads/files/derovopekijofavimiluka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d9774cd0afa74d1c20e6722fe2bcaf0/lamijenoketufad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romovi.net/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/zesolomupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apcmagon.com/userfiles/nafawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettaletroom.com/file_media/file_image/file/gejadonuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4e18d50788---malagupepema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/10985792455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/5186073456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://venefoil.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44011803012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimobertoarchitetto.com/userfiles/files/47362114121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davcpundri.com/css/file/65429229768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyadvisersaustralia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c76123ed14aa949334e65327043a7db0/rubenokabipiwurewu.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_off0000d94b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD94B 16632 bytes
SHA-256: 9a42b12b1d309f9dc35b064430807f5ddbdcc3a8b1ff3eef11a89ec91ada52cf
font_01_sfnt_off00010478.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10478 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C8F 10512 bytes
SHA-256: c91a8114ac7b57ffae642a33067e18bfed25998bd56350cbe85695467a5d3a9b