Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2ee63272d02c126…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 12:01:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b8aecba8e0ea03afd976c1d48f229c7f SHA-1: 68cbdf20bbed09c297a10c2fe36e17a352335f74 SHA-256: e2ee63272d02c1262e494134816a7e1400047b21da434cc00c80fd1602593381
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is designed to conceal its malicious intent rather than convey information.

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://tianlanip.com/filespath/files/20210814012210.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rlponder.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jafijajalamosoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gccde.com/downloads/blog/geust/files/1503795810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peusch.lu/userfiles/files/14284119334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intertexmedical.com/userfiles/files/masulalavezupopifura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alumcity.ru/userfiles/file/21439815823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bec0cc3adda---litutozilupufiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linhngapt.vn/upload/files/rumoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidmitt.com/img/files/file/baguri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turkihale.com/userfiles/file/botipuvifov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koszyczarek.pl/userfiles/file/8759513839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36p6v2gnitgs9qeqane57jpbpe/84592682172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walosports.cl/userfiles/file/rotukorunikozarijefexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duoctruongxuan.vn/userfiles/image/file/31947012782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sergey-yushkov.com/pict/file/19599491960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robodom.si/files_vsebine/zavidonetulodoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2928f85cfbc5920be4cf7f12e78f4a46/gigimezuminitufawilapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ce5c105d231dd5fc2f17035c4515845/70138802406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ec26f1861369e47e486fd957a3b71c5/napovifubakikutazopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afe6da6dd4cd0944fcd71787aa49cfd8/69464923965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e4ebad2eede8e93d183c5e68495a947/gewuviviwivosumuxotosojaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oroblupiscine.it/userfiles/files/14315040354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160885ba241702---1730148041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijtm.in/userfiles/file/41789530821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=nec+wire+color+code+chart+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_off0000bd94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD94 16848 bytes
SHA-256: ca471d0237fd7bd90a380ab57d8d4d621b15fdcebe7f4a3289aa6d8ce21458db
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8C3 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 5095674952b97dae611623f8ffeac04afa3c986c75c86fbf5dce679d6dd8715a
font_02_sfnt_off000100d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1