Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ee3a6ba1726c077…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-08-09 04:21:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0a8d5f77400bcfb91b6d11f7c8bd53b3 SHA-1: ca40fdb780bb13ff755f896cfca7a06a6dfa716d SHA-256: 1ee3a6ba1726c077f4e065ad2f1c1eb8fb346dc1b9d6941f51808bbd9b0c54a4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. This structure strongly suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://mgrenginiai.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17289806326.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ccskin.com/geektic/files/8632958553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vff926qn1cjl6sga7rph7t69u0/1497502813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fdd51543867---73105465024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7939d52f07---bedefojodusejeloliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gancza-yacht.pl/userfiles/file/11736393388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/jejazoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb945b404249002741b6d05dccb1afb3/rusuvejovirisemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semangkabiji.com/contents//files/maraguzukexuwoziwadora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adcaaf5de11---66974761776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d2b2d40f2eee29df3c8023d4d34d49f/7110331588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c532dd894---debuxileromakuxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071acea671b1---kugefukadevupaxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superplasticizer.cn/d/files/57879965321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609061721e7bf---91521939518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69bccaf2e7a8e5731b96bc4363f5ee8b/73604518495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090bd4a247a3---wujodupafuwebuwobupewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.casestilistas.es//ckfinder/userfiles/files/sogefefefirax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superbarter.sk/media/file/79842055077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.com/userfiles/file/7064130852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077286e21d22---82316882207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emeraldoutback.com/clients/f/f6/f61299a274fa8fdb0c00f5b1ed511d42/File/gixexawovene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5baa4069ca---4634957812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0070bcdda---gezovawekulagobuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=ae+jate+hue+lamho+mp3+song+downloadPDF 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_off0000e791.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE791 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffa3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFA3 20120 bytes
SHA-256: 157c0d1ad9b086f37667459b0b266940856459ec878b89bf841a6b9b9f58ddb8
font_02_sfnt_off0001337d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1337D 11116 bytes
SHA-256: bb10b39d3590353808351530f24fbdbaf937bea4b105ffb0cfb18339a02d6f1d