Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ee6a44596a4578d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.3 KB Created: 2021-10-03 10:34:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: d5bb01d592c6fc2b6e5766c46e255be9 SHA-1: a8b6326f108e1c2c61ad7b54b8cb036b89aa5eec SHA-256: 2ee6a44596a4578d77dcc13490447c35b01c1d575b8c13f58287f3bb10168fa8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of malicious redirection techniques.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9944

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mcmurry+general+chemistry+7th+solution+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4tjouurcsv724jmg4nqn6evcar/31264567360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holzbau-napetschnig.at/widepepoxujedolisepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirsistem.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/30614111968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hairfibers24.com/upload/file/radubuveget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carparts-fixture.com/file/file/zitagixudeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/fugegerazunukawuxikoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irina-beha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10750127885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68de26fe84a96b3656667f26740a5a04/70516203765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ermolino.mebel18.com/uploads/files/buwutakotuwulofodasalad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeusjtu.pretty-match.com/upload/files/21637130376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijtm.in/userfiles/file/57254267719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/43647713918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asacnfservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kivujotekakoropavojim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f9592460e5f7eb4457551960787bca5/ratisejopejenijizesimap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auswallendorf.de/userfiles/file/xubokekogirefagutog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ip-pharma.net/data/files/70417624721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medi-sen.com/files/files/35083691861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e25fc1af7c---12675738143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gewoongroen.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/16422536618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terminal.hr/userfiles/file/50744303412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161303e7ca2dd9---xuginarajapesomeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.seblocation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81095668399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifaistos.reality.gr/~triantaf/images/file/kuparigavimakejulirogatug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quatanggiabao.com/images/uploads/files/wazevajokolonusobex.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://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_off0000b263.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB263 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA75 15568 bytes
SHA-256: bc6cf1dc2d5dce27cc963ce5d5dfd890ef2de9407968be3cf38de5fc75d14884
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1AF 11324 bytes
SHA-256: 2438119b65527f9dce923f7470ba173b6a4decfb7bfaaa00efdf74d506b453de