Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee28bec238033b56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-08-10 13:52:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d795e0661f5d2c345fe921729488d3a0 SHA-1: 21cd16c5cce09af4afa6106c695a7a4441b61641 SHA-256: ee28bec238033b5626d513ab3e5e66da10396640e3d055be5823bea7ce4ec16b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely serving as a distribution point for phishing or malware. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to lure users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=econometrics+exam+cheat+sheet+stock+and+watson PDF link annotation
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df79f3f9e9---vinaxegevuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roshindelivery.ae/userfiles/files/favobetob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609475884bda4---bidaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fa51afc0ab21717bfdee6f69097e428/64260393939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/4579631402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bouwbedrijfansing.nl/userfiles/file/gimaponuxesunevamimegejul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://misionesmedellin2030.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gvkbo538s5q7746000f44o9e9f/tujinoperoxovidurotinuwut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ampletrekking.com/userfiles/file/92891955467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalikraft.com/images/file/pawudagasaleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jahanchart.ir/data/files/file/timiraxavulagesamilapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/577a6e8730498667e00af3315a978965/leripofabesogozezam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609894ef368ed---18004732401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c7d656aa4---58848273561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yi-xiang-yuan.com/CKEdit/upload/files/35717572375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b88d725c925a31fe8361667c8bc770c/21616745272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottotech.center/userfiles/file/80510025049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stomerijindex.nl/images/uploads/89639069925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.cz/files/files/35426745249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nenanhduong.vn/Upload/files/tebalitama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boschvietnam.com/files/usersfiles/files/tokonuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59jqsmcoea2lge49iqpfbjaja7/kibosokekokatovagivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://incoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/89684487625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jaqb160ovhdrl1hutn9c57d9h8/83056505828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gotamsui.com/ck_imgs/files/23614542114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d31e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD31E 20656 bytes
SHA-256: 7e72abf5bfe578d922d974cc578a9694f80df809dc660cc09814c42db2bc5c2c
font_01_sfnt_off000109dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109DD 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 525ef6cd149599cd9357dc3a1f6ee6ffc490a923389d8e116c2990e16b31b27b
font_02_sfnt_off000122cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1