Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eaf65ee62904fd25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 20:02:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 34dfc2af99b8e8fffbe11fc01a2666db SHA-1: 7808d472400d1dceb68180225c25ad42c00e78e4 SHA-256: eaf65ee62904fd25770e16984a5e071332b50e13e1bd21e540fb6148fc017244
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be part of a link farm hosted on compromised websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests the primary goal is to redirect users to malicious content or downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+queen%27s+sister+movie+online PDF link annotation
    • http://hieuchuan.com/upload/files/40399939748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamgph.com/uploads/file/180926079199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tao-oita.com/admin/upload_filesfile/12784644935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindah168.com/contents/files/wapepuganizuwugopevizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimkhimientrung.com/uploads/image/files/23070613712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kahounova.cz/userfiles/file/35425080241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ibojpae3tbcn8som4cdhpbb65/84286150213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.iimranchi.ac.in/ckfinder/uploads/userfiles/files/betazone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://all-stage-meditation.tw/uploads/files/613637ee8edaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dabfb06968dfbf6bf11f1bdf08d01135/48103937103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqcorth.specialty-match.com/upload/files/48954270723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoyi-chuck.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jasebebigefenafix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clinicaepilepsia.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62223497243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuttotop.com/userfiles/files/depugupulefime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hart-metale.pl/gimnazjum/userfiles/file/suforo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettipassarinmarzotto.com/userfiles/files/71014188714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salvatoredivilio.it/userfiles/file/jefodeluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikansambel.com/contents/files/12178515409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanchuyenduongsat.vn/upload/files/tefigulewik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/977ba16c473e8e17e69f2494c1f65d5d/71927533776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16132ab6a538b3---61101818287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polandpools.com/contents/files/88878809772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://o2opr.co/userfiles/files/zovivanakegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tv-kitchen.ru/files/files/vazilujojarubowavu.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_off0000d584.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD584 17744 bytes
SHA-256: 3ee2161b55f175e82208a22a144f5c72d7b83bd4ef02c1abfc49e358e7105588
font_01_sfnt_off00010316.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10316 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 37617ca2cb09990c6fedc195ae444fb01e1ce686d8de79bcd8eb3b51828748ef
font_02_sfnt_off00011aec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AEC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1