Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eaa4d88d44e953eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-09-09 02:55:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 5e25832c687fd1983c17910486090306 SHA-1: 58434851630fd81594ab659f5aa4643ab4c7f5ce SHA-256: eaa4d88d44e953eb8829296ecf6130a21920ffe7b3047d646851f8e016fdacd4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains. The primary goal appears to be directing users to external malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://drinkpoint.com/uploads/files/25844552650.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://infinijewelry.com/userfiles/file/86416560355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkwwta.org/userfiles/44750467606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macroedunet.com/userfiles/file/29108238723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phuketwebstudio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puxezokoguzegipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oumkua.com/userfiles/file/85330920426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://budapestpainter.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jiniwosejolil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/zofojetopemopajiwowosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oykufestivali.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rolizokono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delphin-bau.com/ckfinder/upload/files/pirezowar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nemeckystrakac.sk/editor_uploads/files/61625480803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wildarium.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30648237599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161338f9f5cb41---fiporuponezarekuxunejuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133bb914c0a8---87533558866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coconut.hu/userfiles/file/rokipeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/86314344446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivaldiskibus.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210907_756AB505E8142609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/totoarj4hln98vgp3981lgvkq4/resulaxuzekibelolel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rigosarchitects.gr/userfiles/file/78368667463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bj2l9f8sck1754i27njkuo50s3/lodonerum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gitteszoneklinik.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15707254542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021090116093184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceramicasvillaflor.cl/UserFiles/File/48785418944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613922af43b1a---52387203634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=plague+inc+apk+mod+unlimited+dnaPDF 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_off0000b2b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cad0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAD0 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 28a42d29efed5c0f52fbdba250ac2373b609283a1a109b1b3c8808803b91f064
font_02_sfnt_off0000e365.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE365 18044 bytes
SHA-256: 5293ded4edf56d885c9e84e73d34388253650c07719c95b6ad3235ee5c6bf1db