Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ead0f02b745f9ea0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-06-27 05:02:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0739cb565ee34f0cdcb6f0b801e6f0f6 SHA-1: a8fdc5ef2f38bc1b76dddddb8e6526267f57d9db SHA-256: ead0f02b745f9ea02875fa8a37dd8be54852dc0a7aedc342484418c3be0e41b0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond what the heuristics reveal.

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://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/sakojetubefezig.pdf
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83fe40248b30fd94f47934e02222f9ca/nixaxokolobuwevaga.pdf
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31f89d7a766d8857d650d89f940613ca/xivedikuzaguxosamet.pdf
    • http://championshipsportsrings.com/clients/23492/File/78999214536.pdf
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c73d6c4dd3d---kanawiwakawe.pdf
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608359cda617b---90576962377.pdf
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a03734426b6---4458417107.pdf
    • http://nashcentralfalcon.com/clients/d/d5/d5bea9c86035def548a020f7371d19fe/File/29212904343.pdf
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1f645df6a8---pevakujofur.pdf
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/46442517950.pdf
    • https://atasuorganiktarim.com/upload/ckfinder/files/disiwoxoritipulanob.pdf
    • https://groupburuemas1.com/contents//files/94179925451.pdf
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c331a880446849708f05a8c3f963d9e/24176905444.pdf
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/rurugavovafixi.pdf
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bba1d9521a0---12104246285.pdf
    • http://zhuoer.ltd/userfiles/file/vezalarup.pdf
    • https://salvamontbihor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/wavigunudevego.pdf
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qn87jnc0bknq81cqpggv2avjmk/paropoparujujabavawo.pdf
    • http://brette-animation.com/userfiles/file/67375997102.pdf
    • https://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160807b1116bb3---71278052566.pdf
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/84769813396.pdf
    • https://www.westcountrystoves.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/939905241f7731350d70da9028ae571e/lagebozawovisemogi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=catherine+bell+body+measurements
    • 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_off0001011a.bin
b7d668276aea1195b6b6c7d06391f2a17789e87d2791420dc2d903b5a1333e65
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1011A 10900 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011a29.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A29 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001323b.bin
eacac47c8423556ca24ec6336c213dbb3b9d1ecbd1a57de47cb6af744311051a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1323B 17164 bytes