Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee1ece970273129b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-07-02 15:57:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: b962ad4ab0658b593fbcd4ba89db1658 SHA-1: 4f4d97b417766fa25ab78c36058ea07fea9fdb9e SHA-256: ee1ece970273129bd07a65eb1cf57c16d41006323f52b709f4a92390451bab86
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to phishing sites or download further malware. The embedded URLs suggest a link farm designed to obscure the final destination and evade basic detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9933

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://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e2da229a37---58998475532.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c82db5e8437c8f3693717435df17ac7/38328269856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--49s538bo8ux8c.net/userfiles/file/35450421868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zold-kommando.hu/files/jovatevuwit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koszyczarek.pl/userfiles/file/lujakepufagaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zzhqhi.com/d/files/xezanuborifewapujuwogima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transmar.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/feluguruvifidax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096a499ab2f5---15835469846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719e405a06f---71028309478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cs-web-design.de/ablage/userfiles/files/63753322339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aventura-agence.lu/userfiles/files/65800684369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pkynfe.net/userfiles/file/57347836374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608338a8d874e---76412822470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/950924f49a2540d5388537415f175c51/rosetujoviguxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africa-emergence2019.com/userfiles/file/vomutimikisipesinugojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lezeckastenakosice.sk/upload/files/80706169919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medgarlci.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a30cffc059647bc73b20a4effb4bfad7/84242684585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursac.net/userfiles/file/14362065404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2708212254e9a66bd793e1185be83321/gujagin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plncse.hu/php_data/file/37121189099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607234af5bed9---wozaketarovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acf8tr3os1kraprh48f14qi5jb/57654942586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrjok.com/uploadfile/file/piboviruwipiruxifijes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606feae46a450---10991410940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=if+g+is+the+centroid+of+triangle+abcPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bbbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBBF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3D6 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 4a4dad89a90895c6e1697457549845f9a834a05d6bdfd51869d5b4fcb4d896c5
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC8E 16088 bytes
SHA-256: 450eea5fc67953cc3bdc764260aa6f1739571c17331c9588074966c3dbef4c6c
font_03_sfnt_off000101bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101BF 16728 bytes
SHA-256: 6163ca0dccf268fad8ef72ba2f458666a579b33ad2355209359147d8ede095eb