Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee1b95d217f62544…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.9 KB Created: 2021-08-16 01:23:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ca2228f6defb2f554a724ca795e02286 SHA-1: 2e0b9eb150c42a692f7c30f2edd7e0f022b448bb SHA-256: ee1b95d217f62544d3124e7250444962072e600b10575a6018c999c390b5c222
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classification and a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to various websites. Some of these URLs are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories or appear to be on disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9901

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://sixtyguildersresearch.com/admin/photos/file/kisigol.pdf
    • http://vtvxm.vn/userfiles/file/56482743098.pdf
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79d7e91cf864ddb3ae987aebed3f9bdd/satezasunazar.pdf
    • https://medicentrumnz.eu/medicentrum/files/file/pagasawixidopusuriwigi.pdf
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5seov44p09jqd3goglnv521bf4/82441846818.pdf
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d62688e436018dc1b071249e8a9a7c67/xilebesoputurew.pdf
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa9a78239a---zasagolumaxupesesomijava.pdf
    • https://antae.be/app/webroot/uploads/file/vowokititisumemogebebul.pdf
    • http://msamerica.net/clients/873634/File/wuvikizifitoxizibawe.pdf
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/21840286204.pdf
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cfd9f2dd3e---fuvegovavoxuleretopedigiw.pdf
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cde3b585dc046f9564ede6a3a4ff96b9/wemubopivivixiritopij.pdf
    • http://k-souz.com/userfiles/file/wivezapivuvusigowotodexex.pdf
    • http://rgn2u.com/userfiles/files/xovusedinomasulamilitokig.pdf
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f45345db46---rabivufapimenogukiz.pdf
    • http://billsky.ee/files/file/15407090985.pdf
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609197847d5ef---91704681472.pdf
    • http://fogathajtohirek.hu/fckfiles/file/nagared.pdf
    • http://pogservice.ru/userfiles/file/bogawotedesijor.pdf
    • http://unseenadventure.com/userfiles/file/23368528806.pdf
    • https://sankohomestay.com/userfiles/files/23992029789.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=wade+qu%C3%ADmica+org%C3%A1nica+9+edicion+pdf+gratis
    • 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_off00010af8.bin
8339c2a270e478c72fbd5f14054ffeb5b2362a610f8341026076205c13e72315
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AF8 18208 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013957.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13957 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001516e.bin
ff7bc8d96c3d5146f98fa31919422d5f91e8c46551a7942fde22ffea01250414
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1516E 11568 bytes