Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eea8c6422dc10e1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 03:59:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: af3fe670110291d29eefb1c7ddd7c230 SHA-1: 05fe049a37019872a715107a6cdf74861b92225c SHA-256: eea8c6422dc10e1c74ed996f05c6fbede6c4c24c50ce3a89e440c56fbd040e4d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' further supports this, indicating the document is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://partner-support.net/user_data/userfiles/files/18062597879.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cheapmarkt.com/userfiles/file/9142833933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.net/slicice/file/14750447752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088b994ecaea---fakudujivif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sp-pir.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a32d55ee3801c9530ea6c793eee52d12/62610785943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edubox.mn/uploads/users/0/files/ginalow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7629d0213f1665147f73466285f98e6/10538967830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dermatologomiguelgallego.com/miguel/fck/file/89157562805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/753cnh1u50sqsqanl4suphbthn/tuwumizesapibukona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tryinvest.eu/userfiles/files/62411008161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb52931933961f101d75e6ad8bdecc41/vibonojaboratimideko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bef1f560b19---69043003021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5n0shi7jkqi9effeknappg7m66/serokodole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://styropapex.pl/userfiles/file/56583313364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/44891455444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6015a77e14---3277561489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2af26d3609---60689900531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://handinhand-daycare.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xatopuduwar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhosting4.net/media/file/tesinegemepigapikivufuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computerdoki.hu/user/file/fenajunimarafuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestocktool.com/d/files/41370732246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongtienlamnghiep.com/upload/file/xadekoxubowarofixekubezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+remove+permissions+password+from+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000e55c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE55C 17984 bytes
SHA-256: 1361b87bb823cf03c5d43415854534d50944a2e5a769898edf7e764c5b960d4f
font_01_sfnt_off00011359.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11359 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B70 10756 bytes
SHA-256: a7136023e57964b73670ef28ea5bea14e69cff799ee1acfb5b33d9f10d8e8ce5