Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eace0ebffd277f5b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-10-12 19:42:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f0df0bf794fec7de9acadbf95d86c60e SHA-1: 0ddbf2677681a3e088b553339abd247f832008c2 SHA-256: eace0ebffd277f5b5ff2007cac29032aa9073da4c454f71f1363a8c1e68f58c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristic analysis revealed that the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains. The presence of numerous links with UTM parameters suggests an attempt to track user engagement with potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pain+in+your+calf
    • http://www.tiande-global.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52786193804.pdf
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614fe644ddb7b---90952711554.pdf
    • https://z87992961.com/upload/files/20210907150359.pdf
    • http://zoncmswebsitebeheer.nl/files/editor/file/xisegakavekamezefunate.pdf
    • https://zemtechnika.lt/public/site/0files/gifinuravob.pdf
    • https://www.cosanuesa.com/componentes/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99527755690.pdf
    • http://bagiez.de/userfiles/file/42636369087.pdf
    • http://casaperferiesantamariagoretti.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/98107374830.pdf
    • http://2safe4u.cz/UserFiles/File/59309670439.pdf
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/misqup309tirp899ltt47nh84c/xotusezazixagesazi.pdf
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/towogamitoro.pdf
    • https://glaze-metalart.com/upload/files/66628184470.pdf
    • http://humidorio.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67075240368.pdf
    • http://jiachuankeji.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-19/20210919165953440420.pdf
    • https://www.ksmt.edu.np/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59268796656.pdf
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dc1fb03bfcc3e91ea0fe0803f4ce974/lijibitotaxifata.pdf
    • https://hot-pol.com/images/file/87671739889.pdf
    • http://cosmeticdermatologymiamibeach.com/uploads/data/files/buvufadakar.pdf
    • http://studiomanzella.com/userfiles/files/79580950033.pdf
    • http://habitat3.eu/userfiles/files/dukezobuz.pdf
    • http://www.uc-kushiro.net/images/library/File/48380319145.pdf
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142693e248db---21086648180.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d23c.bin
8b64438cc97aa8eb702e2e5adb11ce2c7ad1c25a93bc4b2e16b721b729d9993d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD23C 17452 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fec3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEC3 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000116da.bin
c7249c4acc093362fbb08ff530e61e8f5eea605109beddfb41f6f325079451ce
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116DA 10144 bytes