Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee1a4bd775383f6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-06-30 21:12:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: e74f7f8a38f70124af2bce897a20307b SHA-1: 010469abf81b5bd5fa187b26782237803c476cd4 SHA-256: ee1a4bd775383f6a8de06049f813b9221cb42de3179e6d21c1c5ed6d43745c75
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of embedded URLs and link farm patterns indicates a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dpi4hl62isbvq6d7do7pmuido/94737961524.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tr8t4tdeidmpsike241c33cbeo/65325014275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08029b0dc0f347f4258294ba123bb06c/31204839371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42-6kcdlkbomh7beggito5p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/77974166395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalikraft.com/images/file/napov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429090041155397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83099cdf4720f8d6870eb1179ab4d360/mefopexulikuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/rafidure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6dc4f3bea---47952688948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gotween.com/userfiles/file///82491231688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075827722c90---parelubebalizaduju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soechi.net/userfiles/file/bugesotit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuquytravel.com/nguyenvanlinh/files/kadalifixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e51895418e1934677b9e06aa26301d5/57746806334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://o2opr.co/userfiles/files/26849463137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebcb9a135de42b92a3a5ca3ef5d9a152/54882140809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607603722e662---82099453990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xistenze.com/files/files/kanaburigabofuzejojak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tasarimak.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96892475100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jvcc.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2106051457081095655v1i8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a11b227fe9d8450a9fef645444215ecf/metume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acronimocostanzo.com/userfiles/file/lepogijirerepusav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91fec4a67e91c0c876c65278bcc036f3/87633239829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42-6kcdlkbomh7beggito5p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/rokipekegaxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b70a1538975980015926df52520ec9ce/naxolaluraxidigigota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=topic+on+pollutionPDF 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_off0000f138.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF138 16996 bytes
SHA-256: ba6c9fec741d116e8fa0cd9092c5aa45d8a2c72dabca997584957f409053beaa
font_01_sfnt_off00011d80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D80 9868 bytes
SHA-256: b9d6abea93e2bda9fa4967453223b86203a21e8ec78e7457b31703b7c8f92dc0
font_02_sfnt_off00013351.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13351 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1