Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee1333f745a08344…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 11:35:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a580269a5a59f940f6ddd26f8c74da87 SHA-1: 26913659776b7b832bc1c4d2ab1a043446a72574 SHA-256: ee1333f745a083448c62df7e3fc0d0e35146f2c0e6ea34e4a67f530e6563bb89
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to other PDF files hosted on various domains, many of which appear to be disposable or compromised. This structure strongly suggests a link farm intended for SEO poisoning or to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://summithigh75.com/clients/867147/File/jiwekitofejotigutiwepew.pdf
    • http://grawerlik.pl/userfiles/file/49348883975.pdf
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/amm0aocc3q3fgjcuefupc952f5/30839826261.pdf
    • http://digivideos.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/difujuwufuwilasiv.pdf
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/726948fd6f92f52f25babbd611d2377c/pesojoribepepuzewavoza.pdf
    • http://maihome.hu/admin1/file/89791805793.pdf
    • http://brenna-ski.pl/userfiles/file/taxanumadikoxidufolebi.pdf
    • http://vejwun.cz/images/25957739045.pdf
    • http://ayurveda-shiatsu-nice.com/upload/files/82107037533.pdf
    • http://wsospice.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/zajufok.pdf
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f263fd1c2c---59132281979.pdf
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd3830f3efc---68308910033.pdf
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075fadc6f9eb---tenozolabewagibusu.pdf
    • http://crystaltrade.hu/data/file/bujutafuxewin.pdf
    • https://wroclaw-effatha.pl/grafiki/file/xuxemosivep.pdf
    • http://murito.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8705546790.pdf
    • http://dsagco.com/Upload/file/mekisijalogadorel.pdf
    • https://bostaninsaat.com/image/files/32063820137.pdf
    • http://whewfamily.com/clients/12004/File/sowota.pdf
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/pezanekulox.pdf
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbf4de9369c---70333415904.pdf
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6038cca222---94130898677.pdf
    • http://automozg.by/upload/editor/files/23854187776.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=lesiones+premalignas+del+cuello+uterino+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e9ee.bin
95d8dccafebb6a8fa40eb357bd83e00db1fc18cd17f9e51a77e064e36f4eda0e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9EE 18932 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011a0f.bin
c65a48e811983af4d83878d7f9443b2b5d2985d96cf18586a99b8d87b9c1c5b8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A0F 11020 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001337b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1337B 16792 bytes