Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eae15bbbc81c2f02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-09-09 14:05:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 551ff2d43cef34420431147d543449e9 SHA-1: 4435053eb9fa60056e78efa93f2449a17ff5755c SHA-256: eae15bbbc81c2f02e4bc08e3aa0d1c72886b8a116d7156725cdb346e5f5859a8
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URIs that point to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and a link farm indicates an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+hook+my+firestick+up+to+my+tv PDF link annotation
    • http://nakloboucku.cz/uploaded/file/susanik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.artikel238.nl/emmwebbit/resources/ckfinder/userfiles/files/temidixewenike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westernmaki.com/uploads/files/xudawugugukufizusanafuwif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/bujorowitegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensiunea-escape.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51168903113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5967fd51af9f38e25bb05844bc4dc85/litiwavilamozevarugisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phunphu.com/userfiles/file/wosof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137240289f7e---35885153729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debsecond.net/UserFiles/File/galuliba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riosemarescentrodemergulho.com/ckfinder/files/71085974408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongtienlamnghiep.com/upload/file/22056966947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haenuri.net/ckupload/files/woxubusagomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613764da573cf---voxemiwet.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://duz-drustvo.si/uporabnik/file/fifapekov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easy2ticket.com/upload/files/8589111454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polesprogettazioni.com/userfiles/files/rakovogopinekukigem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indiantiffin4me.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/pamozejazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darec.sk/files/files/jizetulatoxebediti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquarium-kochi.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/begezepeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139865b22b38---22798636283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.net/contents/files/xajukibotufujevuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136477e71b8e---wibimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quartierdete.fr/uploads/fckeditor/file/15019221353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boldogelet.hu/media/42420598361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tauthuy.vn/upload/files/viwomopagumiboxasob.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_off0000c41b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC41B 17544 bytes
SHA-256: 889a1cf7090bf09b25e10833a4410a0689a3aa818c72280c4c5d7bd0442996dd
font_01_sfnt_off0000f16c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF16C 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 588ff354a7afc2ca81993ea465c31a2044f68382beeefe4b52d8cdd1cfcaf162
font_02_sfnt_off00010ab6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AB6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1