Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee106d9ba6d72651…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.4 KB Created: 2021-09-27 02:58:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 0bfa0bd8c19bb4b5df2eae197e5eeb9b SHA-1: 5ae126cf6d5bccd3d8ec502daa61d28b70f9ffed SHA-256: ee106d9ba6d7265175a8543e83980c01c45de59c1bdafa741e122def3471dffb
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous links to external sites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 1 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=card+hacker+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://hferrynetworks.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210904_FB0278FA3A83F09A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sensi-leszno.pl/userfiles/file/fuxoduwenunuzanil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161381de3e72fa---zagugusopejoxosaduja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takipcisec.com/calisma2/files/uploads/misowokibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svazekobciorlice.cz/userfiles/file/75396153439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isigakizima.net/img/tmp/file/fobokobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fred-robin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jivane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/60775565098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehideawayresortpattaya.com/userfiles/files/xadedopowunarelawafipen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144a490748c9---laxazixeripemito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingwrapcarspa.com/upload/files/wozedomibil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-business-plan.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/tezusolapegaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16150b93654375---gusuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ryokanclub.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210923_426E2CEBC3F71B2D.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myagenda.myagenda.cz/pictures/editor/files/66389136326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161493bcd26811---rinamop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pillshop.ru/uimg/files/powavipetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thetestmag.com/userfiles/files/54671274601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanobubblevietnam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/48791944459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitperu.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tezuxuxadowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thaiahpa.com/flash/files/rijogajokabidumajebabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139eacc7c50d---refalib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/vixibodulide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdata.vn/upload/files/turupo.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_off0000b09c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB09C 14076 bytes
SHA-256: 3ad8d9508693a90ef859b17160ae2052a2a0f727f4a769f7178f54e81777b5aa
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ebf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBF9 10104 bytes
SHA-256: 820f1cb911e5b981a30bb1ffe951919a473d07de54695034652c9965cbe545f0