Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eac5ac22d1a25ac1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 20:59:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 3ef1135543d0273f5160fd8bed2e0bea SHA-1: 8067ff3f0c99cb585579411667d55b4c3a65ef3c SHA-256: eac5ac22d1a25ac1ec60ce3c60a9d18f82a08bb1246a410b181feaf0babbc50d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=iphis+and+ianthe+story+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://mamo-tato.ro/userfiles/file/reladaduzasewekikiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioschicchi.eu/userfiles/files/79639890690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maderas-navarro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14920448349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607125836ff3e---16787736462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrostroi-proekt.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79897401638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8ik3m3vlsplkfv16e3tr5ml9d/veniwin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6jlc5l9illms27i3pj33h86r5/77300622588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contal-farmer.com/uploads/files/sadazupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d054879869c---numubekidepasuriduwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d383f9079a6c38481b63171a8ee10333/tapabonuxilupoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubyyadav.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/wotenuxanodebotufogox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fandimnarodaku.cz/upload/file/29110343862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equantumconsulting.com/files/files/kewibuxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161346bc6cc4cd---68194439100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f8af0c31bf---88415002952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bed3a527325567615bc34717f79f6eac/25558374766.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_off0000d68f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD68F 18732 bytes
SHA-256: 619d33f94ab2ead222d4374ba9170f8df90c7144aa2bd432271e434962875480
font_01_sfnt_off00010746.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10746 10616 bytes
SHA-256: dec4cc2f89e38b790c575438d5b26d388a546f1f83c9ce427a5a9d69d09a044c
font_02_sfnt_off00011f85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F85 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1