Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eac7d7493b6c7e07…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-10-01 15:52:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: cc089395eb7fcc2dcd216cf77a35c262 SHA-1: 26f665ca9d9cc3e7e9e7b6bf708e79dd05b53cf1 SHA-256: eac7d7493b6c7e073eadc8708c97b7689fd3691a4604da931af435f699ab5766
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to obscure the final destination and potentially evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=subway+surfers+game+download PDF link annotation
    • http://longruiglass.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210906_054824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b3e281a5253bb64c46d9791d9fd6ce8/xorela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukkies.be/userfiles/file/talejenupulumimaketebupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/76098572708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test-immo.com/file/kasopazebebolipefos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fancybox.pamlskovnik.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xatuninuliduno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dayuntang.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20211001035740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ndt-tl.ru/upload/file/62242245000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137f97f97c4f---beruzasinobinelitidis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaukitchen.com/uploads/files/gewer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/20219141649195851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614c0af2dc8ac---69471737667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphambambi.com/webroot/img/files/dozunanamepobapazer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133821273748---1100969182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarmy-kamery24.pl/userfiles/file/guxaxarosivezesidegal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pibar.tw/uploads/files/202110010122467431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmcp-avac.com/files/upload-ckfinder/files/10133933121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraski-chernila.ru/resources/file/54800584629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiorenzuolatrack.it/userfiles/files/fotikovujivijanujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antonellascarpittadesigner.it/userfiles/files/98333773098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opuspointpartners.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zapuxujopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161435cebe933a---6286478450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scsk12.org/policy/files/files/85713981176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westhigienia.hu/editor_up/47236910008.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_off0000b07a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB07A 15852 bytes
SHA-256: 789676b04905cff0bd8a91d6d88f324fd3bf8f8038071eee1347cccb53f716fa
font_01_sfnt_off0000d914.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD914 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f12b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF12B 11024 bytes
SHA-256: fdd295287a8c61e6d05816d247877b3c78375141c54e58ad4e5e1ca852476f18