Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea9d0d42d6baba9d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-09-25 01:57:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 5a3c07243924a7c7836d39486d72cbf8 SHA-1: d670264d210b5fc6651649c14ce89d999d183f38 SHA-256: ea9d0d42d6baba9d990af79969fa89c92c006eed0d5f58c19207bc1f38a0772c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external websites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress upload directories. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and the use of UTM parameters suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://bolshunoff.ru/images/wysiwyg/file/suzubiwu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e2278c9b0d---29580587696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/file/17173744862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eugensa.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/31489965856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marosme.ro/hirek/file/61020445208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urduhadith.org/survey/userfiles/files/55311834830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arsvet.ru/img/upload/vupebise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137909e273ec---87436525488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133d8d9dc6d3---52029984833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esllearningbydesign.com/app/webroot/files/file/kibukipelazipiwoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akanaymatbaa.com/calisma2/files/uploads/lifedafabavijamed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/mefodoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkxhjfc.ltd/uploads/files/20210908055045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioschicchi.eu/userfiles/files/jizedekiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2efcb4f1f466a7822029555b92b183f9/32640825673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cda.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96606414547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolapezzano.it/userfiles/files/dilirepeluxuratejabof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artvideo74.ru/upfiles/files/29080259897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omnoiptv.com/outscapes/admin/ckeditor/uploads/ck/files/92180561798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eghamatsafar.ir/basefile/eghamatsafar/files/xamowuwox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134f8903cf58---40986210690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doublehaircenter.com/upload/ckfinder/files/rowikuxari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smepil.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/88507917021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=chess+apps+for+androidPDF 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_off0000b0e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0E0 10484 bytes
SHA-256: a74bf1ac469680c2f083af270c017c0ac1cb15f2d27bfd1946c3f6df8cc060ff
font_01_sfnt_off0000c89c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC89C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e0ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0AE 17532 bytes
SHA-256: e8f5809b60a376548dd4d9ff3be7798e1bc0e6ca6455d3f9d3d801e514f7d35a