Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ee6b4fea153dd72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-07-04 02:58:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: c5cd24675ad7f0f5371bdb6dd9956cb5 SHA-1: ce10d428e7cb73a2acae0290e42ace6288baec86 SHA-256: 3ee6b4fea153dd722e5be59394c3591e0b91c444737b236703a824b54f5c1d44
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. These links likely serve as a distribution point for further malicious content or phishing attempts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://dui-antidote.com/images/userfiles/file/75395388043.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ngqrk86bdfjt625rn8ien2hrg/82008563105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090c52e9c3d9---pesafifibusajetidorege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/71345950860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/kedaxegiweroxumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609846bf313b3---miwenuribo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdgom.com/upload/file/210603142606257484cs6czzvcck8e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2ac59e39b5---51686027668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861fe8327f3---nodabebepudasuzaman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investmentskillsgroup.com/images/userfiles/file/ponojaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e35f3f5fce4ee1d4eeb456bffa83c020/18124913011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartywspomnien.pl/uploads/assets/file/kujozolasewoxasera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160add658c5f3a---9102520785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095b79925e9d---64648608394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinical-pain.com/pds/userfiles/files/rosadoganawusepegazogini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f1443a9751a48e0895a6ce8a44be290/sapopujiladegidolova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6153759bb1---42082472639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c879b9d9250---punum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/bipufanasovedixameviti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba7f418ec6b---97291458731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renebeumer.nl/userfiles/file/93708737462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfekttorun.pl/pliki/rixuzere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aqsclimited.com/EditorImages/file/90662382673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160820fd07f91f---59958351894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609101f68e744---vozasaxedexonezesisog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=easy+songs+for+fingerstyle+guitarPDF 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_off0000e603.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE603 16948 bytes
SHA-256: d91ea30a96725611e94d6c1693629f59dde30107be67dc649f9f3604143d17cb
font_01_sfnt_off0001124d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1124D 10588 bytes
SHA-256: eae246aa7e83f4dbf519308c68e81c74ab03bb0247ddff62f09e940f7fe25515
font_02_sfnt_off00012aad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AAD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1