Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee18800a245af296…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 04:55:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f025ec9a43cd9b26b24068dc96d05732 SHA-1: 5add3ce50faac824fba9d97f8916fc6feb5bb49d SHA-256: ee18800a245af296d8a75727666ed01118eb7b09418c289fbda11a763b18915d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or directing users to malicious content. The document body is unreadable, but the link farm heuristic and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

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://avgdesign.com/userfiles/file/demumilulolesuzejufa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h06ovdjo53jp2hp9gjkg8k6dk6/51964569025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/170bd64spqhh9kq9d7ec70ehce/vovosidebilunubosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcbcharpentebois.com/ressource/site-image/files/7297777491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613132b8548d2---geravigifuximusosudiveso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/986f9d92e8b5516a39efa9b4aad8cf6b/xawosadam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc304dcef6c---talupetunaforof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2r617hfr1g5ue5htdab80l2ee/10910073080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dintek.eu/uploads/file/81118263825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c520165ce51f87ff9ed85168427d21e/66972673895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwan-casters.com/userfiles/file/defudibogolufifutedur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmxn.com/userfiles/file/20210520124410_mmw6j1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b18116fc168155f3dd1d63c22c0f2de/nejawitixakapenof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cb7005f00d3d1ac546201660c2add3c/noxabifunewovimogetida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bc6cea38a09f2ed437782b3db9dfac4/25713155501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083535a16b33---wipipitepoxazati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haenuri.net/ckupload/files/nawudedofiwiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citysuji.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xakorakelaxafegek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7b211f64de7bb42d55327e8b2a8f509/50134012433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acp-luxusingatlanok.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rulaxisunavevavufefaler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608030c0c0c1d---lujilegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e044be2d7ad---48928248212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhk-aindling.com/userfiles/files/13334866946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=adding+ing+to+verbs+rules+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_off0000c9ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9EE 17756 bytes
SHA-256: 53f14af25ed8ccb24f712b5bb448d42c49ae8d06b00781416d1ec3ec486c0bbd
font_01_sfnt_off0000f78c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF78C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010fa3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FA3 10800 bytes
SHA-256: dbe15c8324aa587ba1fe4364f755e8e1fe1e50b76e31767180c9eb32b78a432a