Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee08d0aea443565e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-23 08:30:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: bf39f8ef22ecc5569468ee21893543d0 SHA-1: e2f7718c44bf6edc1c44f94604a943e69158394a SHA-256: ee08d0aea443565e2e44e01121224eb0237f172791c9b548cd7f5a0c4653434f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Numerous external URLs are embedded within the PDF, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' further supports the attack pattern of luring users to potentially compromised or malicious websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=borrar+fotos+duplicadas+android PDF link annotation
    • http://www.autoservis-hubatka.cz/admin/upload/ww/file/duwadodepoworasukufonel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coaching-scolaire.net/userfiles/file/gejoxivazatun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://open-call.fr/uploaded/files/baxuviniwedimode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koyomisushi.com/uploads/files/tejekiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://workinhotel.com/upload/fckfile/46453789152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atreve.eu/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/wilebomosetuvanuvemoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ccb723ed56---60553415762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://franchisevisions.com/broker-site/files/files/nudebobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bruceleevideos.org/images/file/47207182624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srilangkapools.com/contents/files/51975645576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seto.cz/uploads/kanomew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quinta.cl/upload/files/podanalefoxonokexam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vatlieubaooncachnhiet.com/userfiles/file/gidovadivoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614bb84bc78a4---14343923440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bwlpsalisbury.com/uploads/files/88181718312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linhkienhunganh.vn/luutru/files/1770418372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prawobrzeze.info/userfiles/file/91574914289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicpark-live.com/userfiles/file/vanosorerifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mywayrtk.com/userfiles/file/41465094046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dwitunggaljaya.com/sitefiles/file/tosuxodoxarizukodimafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93028390ec2d89561f5c1b3f108b79aa/tevawulejajavado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duoctruongxuan.vn/userfiles/image/file/2263560210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktifbant.com/resimler/files/gufezobolizova.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_off0000c243.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC243 17324 bytes
SHA-256: 36064fcad2a0dfebb4a294af8bb7502b576c8c0ef3f810e79cd200f79a572b22
font_01_sfnt_off0000edcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDCC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000105e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105E3 10636 bytes
SHA-256: dc85df050c86eb5a542f4077adaae245d988a42156b1bd1e1f9969c56fd129b6