Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ee5cc7a6ef89719…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-22 19:51:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: de3e6c0e9fa6c17be4b61e22b6f32173 SHA-1: 593d74a677b9570042a2a1a69ca4dfe4625a3590 SHA-256: 2ee5cc7a6ef89719c941e9f4097106666a0344f2cd891682aff01fed4d84599e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, disguised as a link farm for free books. The presence of external URIs and a link farm structure, combined with ML and ClamAV detections, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the overall structure and heuristic firings indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd4ec664e840109fe02be51882da3a96/76978078262.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/daviwapilupomila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a80da6c447b3345d290d6dae2609669e/tuxileni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jongauger.com/userfiles/file/92170020788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdkuysuujk.handysociality.com/upload/files/7430116875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playbabydoll.com/userfiles/file/46591518640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://relaxbotanika.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zowowedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rasmesafar.net/basefile/basefiles/sivimokumav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeroseistudio.eu/userfiles/files/7083911029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://augsburger-dartliga.de/uploads/file/gesafapexurizifedux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodmix-psc.com/userfiles/files/mabukefunopomoriwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatrangpalace.net/app/webroot/upload/files/sepopuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konferencii.org/web/uploads/assets/file/vibute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nexapos.com/upload/files/lofemafuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinocastillo.hu/editor_up/56211980892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmtshipping.com/attachment/file/71969722130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maria-galland.ru/files/file/42066390112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proetcontra.hu/userfiles/file/45775548892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://185.33.116.145/~acus01/upload/files/78591851893.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://gulf-rope.com/images/bulk_images/files/14799251439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alcera.ca/userfiles/file/fuvilofejonabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inarchengineering.it/userfiles/files/58069656373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=download+books+for+free+websitePDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614534c908b6a---vugozileluzifijaxi.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_off0000b96d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB96D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d184.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD184 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 280df09a06e4eb82340872ec33418db6a44f2c96dcf5150af1e85308c90a023c
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA21 16008 bytes
SHA-256: 8ff1eba5ae3427e729b528d9e9d9c78aae8bd7c6ac8fe708de27e067037e338a