Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee0caa25b18a00f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-27 13:25:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: ecb37d043ad6b73417dff36a5d004322 SHA-1: cc88b7196c14237f82a6abf20256053e15aeb46c SHA-256: ee0caa25b18a00f18d8266e29d80dc00c3d5ab63c69c2ee2f79d5a03e4b8adaf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://geometrarontani.it/userfiles/files/folukezelabekulikaxapuxe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614c1bfca405b---nuwedidofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s-h.cc/uploads/files/202109241342579308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkacca.com/userfiles/44538657897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projecthouse.bg/uploads/CKfinder/files/36118714997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhahangthanghuong.com/uploads/files/vusolozemijukekofaxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-businessplan.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/kagavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/486b3a783ee5fc542c5d919dae014fa3/kavirigireki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noxsun.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210924104250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarissoft.com/img/userfiles/files/guwuwexipavoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e1d8ae9c77---naxilul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haozuowenwang.com/imagefiles/file/bajifedumilujenonofunupuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i1ld6o8ibpnmpluk0jdf7ri0p4/79254911376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bielwod.com/userfiles/file/rekin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drhuanghair.com/uploads/files/202109092046185194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baltic-rt.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lanutalewenavudef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanglassgroup.cn/userfiles/file/jikodonisonesabixof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lyubomiradineva.com/files/file/61815631703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebodyclubonline.com/userfiles/file/39344839001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gregoryshow.ru/files/file/29819262545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/124aaa9e97a06ac586adf9ada88d187a/31089841942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/279a4c3cdd683922d81ce080b8e5b60c/92014439862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e6cfb18626---zinusifabufilolima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songiadahoaian.com/upload/ck/files/40533284350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leonardscopysystems.com/home/leonards/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/timijod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=the+new+trading+for+a+living+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000b72c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB72C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF3E 17092 bytes
SHA-256: dc8dfdecd52e41c76d71555249ac89c22ab4e8dc47f1e8ba8c69b03ac44af3fc
font_02_sfnt_off0000faae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAAE 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 7e269bb4c0d217ee6c7555ab49a369fbd61498cac4f7410f7c01f96e5bca5531